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King Solomon's Goat 




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King Solomon's Goat 






WILLARD BARTLETT 

Author of 

"The Origin of Priestcraft/^ "The Tenderfoot/* 
"The War of the Stomachs/' etc. 



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CHAPTER I. 
The Divine Moloch. 

The genial gentleman with horns, shown 
on the cover hereof, is christ.* The hybrid 
Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the 
sun-worship of Egypt and India and other relig- 
ious impositions. When the sun, called Ra and 
Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the 
end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a 
new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn, 
or the son of god came in a character to corre- 
spond with the astronomical sign.- Gerald Massey. 

When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, 
the bull, god was reborn, or christ came as the 
bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria. 
It is the latter beauty whose entrancing charms 
are the subject of this panegyric. When Jacob 
wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch 
Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew 
text. This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaph- 
rodite god or idol of the pagans. Read the 
Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating : 

'^Blessed art thou lo Elohanu Melech 

who bringeth forth bread from the earth.** — 
Krinsky's First Lessons in Hebrew, 84. 

The pagans claimed that their god Moloch 
**had his castle of fire in the seventh heaven.** 
And '* Jehovah had his castle of fire over the 
seventh heaven.** — Book of Enoch, 14:7. The 



•Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and 
Lamb are capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to 
pagan gods. 



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identity of Moloch and the Hindu god Siva is 
indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem 
of the latter. The Persian bull christ, the son 
of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord of 
Darkness, and all the other christs that sport 
horns must share the infamy of the great god 
Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda Baoth 
or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the North- 
east, and it is paved with gold, and his throne is 
made of lapis lazuli. 

You will notice that the priest is offering up 
a child to the great god who so loved human flesh 
and blood that he caused his own son to be 
slaughtered. There was also another reason for 
the human sacrifices by the priests and sorcerers 
and secret societies, that is, the desire to evoke 
the dead and summon up phantoms for consul- 
tation. These ghosts are very fond of blood, in 
fact it is difficult for them to materialize unless 
they can absorb the steam arising from human 
blood. It is true that some sorcerers have evoked 
the dead with the blood of kids or lambs, but the 
goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers, 
whose efficacy is not to be compared with the 
man christ. Elephas Levi says that a phantom 
will attract the vapor of blood and human cor- 
puscles in the air as a magnet attracts iron filings. 

**They have built the high places of Tophet 
in the Valley of Hinnom to bvirn their sons and 
daughters in the fire.'* They made their chil- 
dren pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth, 
because young children, like young pigs, are 
tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own 
flesh and blood on the reeking alter of the Devil, 
even as the great and good Ahaz served up his 
son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting 
down to the delicious feast, ate up the heir and 
hope of Israel. Then, chopping up the remnants 
into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in 

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the market place, crying : *'It is true they come 
high, but see what they are made of. Each 
sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton 
and stuffed with the royal house of Israel. If 
you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned 
with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your 
clotted veins, now is the time. Avail yourselves 
of this opportunity to eat a prince of the royal 
blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in 
Israel, Tamar, the daughter and wife of Judah 
and ancestor of David and the messiah. 

The fact that the Jews worshipped on Sat- 
urn-day would indicate that they were worship- 
pers of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the 
first-bom unto the Lord was required by the Old 
Testament. Htmian sacrifices by proxy still 
survive in parts of England, where at Christmas 
time the goodman goes forth to hunt for an old 
wife to sacrifice, and returns with an old log, 
which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the 
fire. This takes the place of the himian being 
his ancestors formerly offered up. In Hertford- 
shire, an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every 
Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death 
in imitation of the crucifixion of the bull christ 
or sun at the winter solstice. At the orgies of 
Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and 
tore his flesh from his body with their teeth and 
ate it raw, but in later times substituted a bull 
representing Orpheus or Christ. — **Orgies" and 
**Orpheus**, Ency. Brit. All religion originated 
in human sacrifices and cannibalism. 

The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in 
Egypt, also named Isis and Meri, which goddess 
we have stolen and worship under the name of 
Mary. When the sun entered the stable or sign 
of Taurus, a christ was produced, or god was 
reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was bom 
in a stable. 

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When the sun entered the sign of Aries or 
the Ram, God was reborn, or Christ came as the 
Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with 
Rama, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu. 
— Gerald Massey. In Thebes the principal ob- 
ject worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Chris- 
tianity was the Ram. 

At the eighth incarnation of God, when the 
sun entered the sign of Fishes, about the begins 
ning of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the 
Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on 
Friday for the redemption of the world. That 
is why the Christians killed and ate their fish 
Jesus every Friday to save their craven souls 
from Hell. That is why the priests of Dagon, 
the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on 
their backs and the head of a fish for a miter. 
The miter of the church dignitaries was the 
gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why 
Christ had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and 
why his disciples were fishermen. That is why 
he came up out of the waters of Jordan. — See 
Ancient Pagan & Modem Christian Symbolism. 

We are baptized that we may typically 
become fish or Christlike, but complete immer- 
sion is indispensable to save our wicked souls, 
A few drops of water on the forehead do not 
make a fish. Jesus came out of the stellar pool 
in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen supersti- 
tious and benighted fishes, who have been boni 
again, come up out of the pool beneath the chtu-ch 
altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The 
basin at the church door or piscina, containing 
alleged holy water, is but a type of that celestial 
pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into 
which the sun plunged and washed away the sins 
of the world. The Egyptian Madonna, Isis, is 
represented as holding in her arms the christ 
Horus, and on her head is a fish. The Hindus 

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worship the fish-god at the temple of the Golden 
Dagon near Rangoon, India. 

The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each 
of the three meals of the vSabbath. **One sHoiild 
eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous 
aire transmigrated/'— Talmud. The Buddhist 
cross, from which the Christian cross was taken, 
is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the 
two fishes of the zodiac crossed. **Maya or Mary, 
the Virgin of the skies, at the moment of the birth 
of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising 
above the horizon.'* 

**The Sim's present position is in Aquarius. 
Our Lord's advent was in the previous sign of 
Pisces, but the sign which he declared shoidd 
precede his next coming was that of Aquarius. 
*When ye see a man bearing a pitcher of water 
follow ye him.'" — Daughter of the Druids, 101. 

When the sun entered the sign of Cancer, 
the sun god, or the son of god came as the Crab 
or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt, 
and was bom in the nebula of the Manger in the 
sign of Cancer. Still there is no law against believ- 
ing in the story of the Jew Christ bom in the 
Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fa- 
thers claimed that Christ was the Good Scara- 
baeus. 

In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a 
supper at which seven persons sit down to eat 
seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers 
have failed to grasp the significance of this 
picture. They are assembled there to eat their 
Christ, as we do now at every Communion Ser- 
vice. Christ is the bread of life, born in the as- 
tronomical house of Breadcom. He came seven 
times in the ancient division of the heavens, and 
in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in 
the sign of Pisces. 

Our Christmas is a new name for the old 

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Roman Sattirnafia, a festival celebrating the birth 
of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter 
solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged 
presents, got drunk and played craps. The 
Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December, 
admit that their Christ is a sun-god. — See 
**Satum/' Ency. Brit. 



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CHAPTER II. 
The Queen of Heaven. 

The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged 
in this pagan idolatry and sacrificed bullocks and 
lambs on the altar for the remission of their sins, 
and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was 
Christ, and his mother was the sacred cow Hathor 
or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an astral 
goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven, 
represented as standing in the crescent moon. 
She is identical with the foul goddesses Astarte, 
Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the 
abomination of the Sidonians. Ishtar is the 
same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because 
the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter. 
The Sacred Cow of India is worshipped as the 
Mother of the Gods. — Book of all Religions, 224. 

You will see in the idol stores the graven 
image of Mary, the Queen of Heaven, standing 
in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before 
her offering her a cake with a hole in it. This 
cake is the Mark of the Beast, the female symbol 
of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the 
sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian 
and pagan priests in their foreheads and on their 
hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha 
Deva, called Sacti because it is sacred and is 
offered up as a sacrifice, closely related to sacrum 
and the caudal appendage. 

The three links are the symbol of the hermaph- 
rodite godhead. The link is the female emblem 
and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within 
the tent or triangle or compasses is an object of 

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worship and adoration. The three-cornered 
triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency. 
Brit., 6 : 462, a bishop is represented with the 
Eye on his left hand, and he holds up three fin- 
gers of his right hand, the sign of the male. 
This is just as efficacious as the three links, as it 
presents to the audience the male and female em- 
blems together, formerly the only objects of wor- 
ship): in all religions. They are the emblems of life, 
and must be held up together to insure the wor- 
shippers eternal life. It will be seen in this 
investigatiori that in every religious assembly, 
from the Witches' Sabbath to the Elevation of 
the Host, the male and female emblems were 
displayed together for the salyation of the world. 
Without these emblems the devotees cannot be 
ix)rn again. The image of the Hindu Madonna 
and Christna shows the Virgin holding up three 
fingers, and with the thumb and forefinger she 
makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls 
erf her devotees.— Plate 14, A. P. & M. C. Sym- 
bolism. 

The high altars of most of the churches 
were rank Assyrian Groves, to which the devo- 
tees bowed low in holy reverence. See '* Altar *\ 
Stand, Die. and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity 
emerging from the female symbol of the high 
Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a 
book on which is written : **I A O^ the Sun, the 
Light of the World.'' When we take off our 
hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance 
to the pile of brick and stone but to this symbol 
above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva 
has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary, 
and the high altar in a mosque of the Mussulmans 
is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal 
Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga 
were also Knights of the Cave, the Gate, the 
Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which 

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they pledged their lives, their property and their 
sacred honors, and each brave knight wore em- 
blazoned on his forehead or on his stomach the 
emblem of his goddess, the open Eye. 

Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the rnoon 
goddess of the round towers of Ireland. The 
priests of the goddess called themselves CUR, 
and a cur offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From 
C U R we derive the word curate. — Stinson 
Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the 
crescent moon on their robes. Osiris is identical 
with the Egyptian god Anubis, the dog, and their 
symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at 
the shrine of Hathor or the Virgin holding the 
sacred Eye in their hands; That is why in 
Christianity,, we see the dog offering to Mary 
the sacred perforated wafer. 

Refer to **Enthronization,'' Stand. Die., and 
you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishop's 
hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you 
will find the same mark on his forehead. See 
'Treemason," and you find that Washington 
wears the same sjnnbol on his stomach. Look 
at Brahma, who carries the rosary in his hand, 
a symbol of identical significance. Refer to 
**Glory,**and you see Christ standing in the Mark 
of the Beast. Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the 
Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol of the 
hideous faith of the Witches* Sabbath, a faith 
coeval with the dawn of time, spawned in the 
slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was the 
moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron 
of immorality. — Ency. Brit. 2 : 735. Mary is 
the same as Venus and Diana, the moon god- 
dess. — Elephas Levi, the priest. 

The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the 
Virgin, says : **Holy Nari. Mariama, Mother of 
an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin 
Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.*' The Egyptian 

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Litany of Our Lady Isis says: **Holy Isis, Mother 
of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, 
Isis, Queen of Heaven.'* The Christian Litany 
says : **Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mother of 
Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven." 
—Isis Unveiled, 209. 

Why does St. Peter^ (Petra, the Rock God) 
as shown by his statue in Rome, hold up three 
fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other 
two fingers ? Why is the Christian Benedictional, 
like the Totem Pole of the Indians, covered with 
the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye 
on the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not 
need it ? This is a very occult matter that can 
be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul 
religions. — See Book of All Religions, 467. 

"Religion is a monstrous fraud and ddusion 
that has desolated the earth and filled the spirit 
world with demons.*' — ^Antiquity Unveiled, 58. 

The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth, 
the Devil, that overshadowed Mary, instead of 
Gabriel. **The female Serpent of the Sky, the 
Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the 
water, the female fish. Her mansion is in Virgo. 
By Manu she is called the Spirit of God (the Holy 
Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit." 
— ^Buddha & Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and 
Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus, of 
course, came out of the sea. 

**The bells used by the Christians came to 
them directly from the Buddhists, Thibetans and 
Chinese, who used them to attract the gods. 
The beads and rosary have the same origin, and 
have been used by Buddhist monks for over 
2300 years.*' — Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used 
bells to warn their god that some dupe was 
about to adore him, so that he would have a 
chance to change his character and not appear 
as the ass-headed god. — Epiphanius, Gospel of 

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Mary. In China and India they ring the church 
bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner, 
and after the spirits have eaten, the remnants 
of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to the 
dogs of worshippers, the scnm of the earth, who 
furnished the offerings. The church bell in 
Japan is called **Call God,*' and we, having copied 
our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church 
bells to call God to listen to our fool prayers, and 
every Sunday he walks a leg off hustling aroimd 
to the millions of places of superstition. 

A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon 
between her horns, was unearthed in a temple of 
Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called 
les and lesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further 
fix her catholicity beyond question she is covered 
with Christian crosses. If you refer to **Isis," 
Stand. Die, you will see that the Egyptian 
Madonna wears horns and the full moon on her 
head. The moon goddess of Peru was called 
Mamma Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother 
of all the Incas, and the real pious devotees got 
soused on com whiskey in her holy worship. 

The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes 
in them to Mary, Queen of Heaven. — Ency. 
Brit. 15 :391. This is the very idolatry for 
which Jehovah drove the Jewish nation out of 
Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44 : 19, the Jews say : 
**We biuned incense to the Queen of Heaven and 
poured out drink offerings unto her and made 
cakes to worship her.*' And Jeremiah says in 
verse 22 : **Because of these abominations which 
you have committed, therefore is your land a 
desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant 
as at this day.'* 

The Buddhists say: **Upon a lotus of prec- 
ious stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Bud- 
dha Matra" (the Mother of God). The Chinese 
invocation says : '*Hail Matra**, and they call 

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her **Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother 
of Buddha."— Buddha & Early Buddhism, 22. 
The fact that the Queen of Heaven existed as 
a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before Chris- 
tianity was spawned, shows that the Buddhists 
did not steal their Queen of Heaven from the 
Christians as charged. 

In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that 
Shishae subdued Israel and erected some charm- 
ing pillars on which were carved captivating 
female symbols, which they worshipped. Jere- 
boam erected two aesthetic heifers, images 
of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edifi- 
cation of the Jews. In Judges, 3 : 7, it is as- 
serted that Israel served Baalim and the Grove. 
Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems, 
corresponding to the candles and manikins 
(sons of man) of the Witches* Sabbath, called 
images of men in Ezek. 16 : 17. I think that 
the Christ of the Hebrews was the candle, and 
that they sacrificed him every Friday, the 
same as the Christians do their fish god. The 
candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess, 
and it may have been Ashtoreth, 

The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door 
post, corresponds with the pillars erected by 
Shishae, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval 
hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to 
kiss, as we kiss the male and female emblems 
on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole 
is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the 
female Sephiroth or persons of the godhead. 
If you refer to ** Altar/* Stand. Die, you will 
see the people worshipping the hole in the Me- 
zuzah, or the Virgin standing in her symbol 
above the altar, which is all the same. 

The phylactery, worn on the forehead 
and on the left arm, contains passages of Scrip- 
ttue, which must be printed on the skin of the 

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cow, the mother of christ, and the phylactery 
itself, must be made of the skin of christ, the 
calf. God himself wore phylacteries according 
to the Talmud. 

Dianus, or the stm, or god, had twelve 
wives, capturing a new one whenever he en- 
tered a new sign cf the zodiac. It was Rhea 
in the sign of the Twins, and Hathor in the 
sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of Pisces. 
One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians, 
the object of a foul worship in Asia Minor. 
She wears upon her head the crescent moon, 
and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She 
bears six lions in her arms, because she is the 
mother of all the gods. Six christs have been 
bom since she ruled the heavens in the sign of 
Virgo. The christ who came in the sign imme- 
diately following Virgo was Leo. It is one 
and the same god, the sun, that comes in every 
sign, consequently they are all lions. 



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CHAPTER III. 
Religious Symbolism. 

This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol 
of Apis, the bull, and other male gods: T- Here 
is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square, 
as found in the ruins of Gaza : T. This is 
the Egyptian K. Ka is the Egyptian name 
of the male emblem. See ^'Hieroglyphics*', 
Ency. Brit. This holy god, in the form of a 
stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the 
shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by 
Abraham, who was fond of chasing after gods 
with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca 
is a meteorite seven inches long, brought down 
from Heaven by Gabriel, and about 300,000 
pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden 
god to save their tamal souls. 

And this is the cross ansata of Egypt, ? , 
or cross of anx (life), a combination of the cross 
of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The 
High Priest of "Egypt wore three cross ansatas 
and three links on his breast-plate, symbols 
of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions, 
from which ours descended, used only the main 
portion of the cross, the shaft or upright, the 
symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It 
is called phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken. 
See the broken column of the Masons — ^A. P. 
& M. C. Symbolism. 

You place the three balls of the pawnbro- 
ker or the shamrock of Ireland on top of the 
shaft, and you have the most archaic form of 
the cross, before which the devils tremble and 

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fall in a fit. Christian crosses, wreaths, bells, 
squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been 
discovered in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth 
city that was destroyed about 1600 B. C. The 
original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign 
of Jehovah was the Signa Tau, or the cross of 
Taurus, the bull, with which the elect were sealed 
in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer 
book and book of magic credited to Pope Leo III, 
he says : '*By this sign -|" Lord Tau, deliver 
me. 

The male emblem, or triangle, placed in 
the circle of Asherah makes the Three in One, 
the profound and esoteric mystery forever 
hidden from the profane and vulgar. That is 
the sacred quartet, those are the idols we worship. 

Turn to Siva, Stand. Die, and you will 
see that he has stolen all the pious Christian 
symbols, although he existed for ages before the 
Christians. In one hand is the circle and in 
another hand a trident or fleur de lys, a male 
emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or 
stole. Thrusting his male head through this 
female emblem is a symbol of life and a saving 
rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is 
just as effective. We can trace the spotless 
lineage of our beloved religion back through 
the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and 
rotten ancestry. 

In both the Christian and pagan symbolism 
the oval in which the saints and gods do stand 
is often represented as composed of roses and 
constitutes a rosary\ The horseshoe brings 
good luck because it is identical with the cave, 
the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem 
of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha 
and Christ are represented as standing in the 
horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that 
the Masonic Holy Royal Arch and the oval 

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above the church altar, in which the Virgin 
stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set 
up in the House of the Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that 
Josiah btimt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings, 23 :6. 
The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to, 
and has all the mystic powers of, the cross ansata. 
It is well named **stole'\ as the early Christians 
stole it from the pagan worship. 

Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked 
and bedizened with all the Christian emblems. 
He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in 
one hand and the cross ansata in the other. 
He has the head and horns of a bull, showing 
that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary. 
And over his head are the Masons' marks, the 
square and the eye, showing that he is in good 
standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ, 
is Lord of the Underworld. 

Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Die, and you will 
see that pagan god wearing all the above em- 
blems. He is Christ and came as Rama in the 
sign of the Ram and as Krishna in the sign of 
Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will see the 
Hindu Madonna and christ that* we kidnapped. 

In the Sim. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910, 
we see a picttire of Isis mourning at the bier of 
Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the 
dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of 
Isis, the circle or rosary above the body. You 
will see that the head of the deceased at the 
wake is surrotmded by male emblems, which 
gross symbols are now replaced in the present 
civilization by candles. You will see that 
Isis is bowing down before the Tree of Life, and 
that she has at hand a basket of perforated 
cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree 
of Life, which tree is called Osiris or Baal or 
Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or lao or Siva or 
Jove according to the country in which the religion 

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is perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a 
dead man's stomach and seven candles around 
his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for 
Hell, but an heir of eternal glory. If you stick 
a cross through the wreath, it is a through ticket 
to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured 
that he wiU go through purgatory a-humping. 



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CHAPTER IV. 
The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath. 

When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn, 
it was reborn as, or christ* came as the goat, 
that individual on whom the Jews used to load 
all their sins and then drive him forth into the 
wilderness. They sacrificed goats on the altar 
because the goat was one of the ancient re- 
deemers. Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices: 
"Imprecations were uttered over the head of 
the expiatory victim, aroimd whose horns a 
piece of byblus was rolled. The animal was 
generally led to some barren region sacred to 
Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the 
origin of the scapegoat of the Jews, who, when 
the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyp- 
tians, began sacrificing to another deity, the 
red heifer.'' 

It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and 
Elephas Levi that the hermaphrodite Goat of 
Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object 
of worship and adoration by the mystic societies 
and at the Witches' Sabbath. In Mysteries 
of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes 
a Witches' Sabbath : ** Approach stealthily this 
cross roads among the rocks. A hoarse and 
funeral tnmipet is heard, lurid torches bum 
on every side, a disorderly assembly surges 
around an empty seat. All look arotmd in 
expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and 
mutter : 'He is here, 'tis himself.' A goat- 
headed prince comes forward with bounds, he 
ascends the throne, turns around and stooping 

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presents his back to the audience, which every- 
one approaches, black taper in hand, to salute 
and to kiss. Then he stands up with a discord- 
ant laugh and distributes to his favorites gold, 
secret instructions, occult medicines and poi- 
sons/' 

The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas 
Levi as a regular god. He wears the male 
emblem on his head like all gods in good standing 
and holds up three fingers, and has the double 
triangle in his forehead, and the caduceus, or 
male and female emblems, on his stomach. 
With one hand he coagulates or creates, and 
with the other he dissolves or destroys. 

•*Let us say boldly and loudly that all the 
inferior initiates of the occiilt sciences and the 
betrayers of the Great Arcanvim have adored, do 
and will always adore that which is signified 
by the frightful figure of the Sabbatic Goat. 
Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Mas- 
ters of the ancient orders of the Templars adored 
Baphomet/' — Elephas Levi. It will be seen 
by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms, 
consisting of the four zodiacal beasts, is sup- 
ported on either side by the goat god Pan. 

Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus, 
with the horns and feet of a goat, is the same 
as the Devil or christ. At the Witches* Sabbath 
in England, the women made manikins, or images 
of men, of clay or wax, and these they wor- 
shipped and played with. And when these 
images were properly magnetized, they could 
perform miracles therewith and summon up 
demons from the abyss. If they possessed 
sufficient will power and knew the occult and 
secret form of words to use, they could play 
that the manikin was an enemy, and then stick 
him through the heart with a needle, and the 
next morning the enemy would be dead. If 

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their magical power was sufficiently potent, 
they cotild siimmon a satyr or subordinate 
goat god to take the place of the manikin and 
consummate the Sabbatical marriage ceremony. 
Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful 
to reduce a human being to the primordial 
protoplasm, and then cause it to again pursue 
the path of evolution through the cell, the 
blastoderm, the devil-fish and all the other 
beasts constituting eternity's great highway 
by which the soul walks down. This is similar 
to the unavoidable cycle, the circle of necessity, 
the inexorable doom of the sacred mysteries 
of the Serpents* Catacombs of Egypt. 

The countersign of the Witches' Sabbath 
was the closed hand with the thumb between 
the first and second fingers pointing downward 
to the abyss. The meeting place was lighted 
only by the altar fire, where the human sacri- 
fice sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts. 
And the devotees, singing mystic songs, danced 
hand in hand in a circle around the god Pan. 
They used the holy grail like the churches and 
mystic societies, and the drafts from this poison- 
ous cup, the singing, the whirling dance and 
the incense from the altar brought on the oft- 
times fatal frenzies in which the victims fell 
shrieking to the ground, as they do among cer- 
tain Christian sects. They were seized and 
possessed by foul fiends from the Pit, or elemen- 
tary spirits, and sometimes by the spirits of 
serpents that materialized themselves in the 
writhing htmian victims and crawled out of the 
prostrate bodies in plain view of the audience. 
There in the blackest hour of the night the 
Vinxmi Sabbati was prepared, a few grains of 
white powder thrown into a glass of water. 
And each one that drank found himself attended 
by a companion, a shape of glamour and un- 

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earthly allurement beckoning him apart to 
share in joys more exquisite, more piercing 
than the thrill of any dream. — Machen*s House 
.of Souls, 438. 

Similar to these con vulsionaries are the miser- 
able creatures in Russia afflicted by strange disor- 
ders, which /people attributed to possession by 
the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathe- 
drals without daring to enter, lest their con- 
trolling demons cast them on the ground. At 
the Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs, 
half mediimis begin crowing like cocks, barking, 
bellowing and braying, and finally fall down 
in fearful convulsions. They prophesy and 
see visions. Paracelsus, the magician, could 
cast the demons out of the persons so possessed 
by the power of a stronger demon which he 
carried around in his pocket. That reminds 
us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of 
Christolators who were intent on burning her, 
but when they were about to seize her, she 
crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her 
^ten^^ard. 

In the Devil's Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil 
worshippers and sorcerers of Mesopotamia, the 
Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to 
the Devil and the Af rites of the desert. In 
their prayer m.eeting they dance in a ring about 
their high priest and whirl and leap in the air 
and cut each other with daggers until they are 
soaked with blood for the purpose of attracting 
the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan 
to manifest himself in miracles. Enormous 
globes of fire appear and assume the shapes of 
monsters. 

The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew 
Kabalists, the day of their religious assembly, 
or rather the night of their habitual meetings. 
This festival, surrounded by mysteries as it 

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was, found its safeguard in the very fright of 
the vulgar and escaped persecution through the 
terror it occasioned. The early Christians cele- 
brated the pagan Mysteries of Jesus and prob- 
ably held a Witches' Sabbath. — See Mystic 
Christianity, 212. 

One should trim his finger nails on Friday, 
never on Thursday, otherwise the nails will 
commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is 
very wicked for the nails to grow on the Sab- 
bath. — Kabala. The Israelite, after the end- 
less Sabbath observances, should fold up his 
veil, but if he forgets to do so, he is to shake it 
thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake all 
the devils out of it. And the reason is known 
to the Lords of the Kabala. — Kabala Kitzur 
Shlh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer 
to the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the 
moon is a symbol of Jacob, the lesser light, 
(who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen 
of Heaven is his mother, and the sun is his 
father. The new moon is Jacob or Christ. — 
Ibid, fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these 
things together with all the other profound 
wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan 
says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned 
man like a fish. 

Constantine, the Roman Emperor and can- 
onized saint, the superstition-besotted, the 
assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the uxor- 
icide, the filicide, the regicide, chosen from 
Heaven as the murderer-in-chief of the world, 
according to Eusebius, **held up by God to the 
human race as an exemplary pattern of godli- 
ness and destined to share the Empire of Heaven 
with Christ,** this was the bloated, red-faced 
profligate who established Sunday worship in 
321 A. D. and compelled the Christians to 
worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of 

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the Sun, because his own god was Apollo. — 
See First Council of Nice, 28. Constantine 
was the founder of Christianity, and, like father 
like son, it followed in his footsteps. He could 
not obtain absolution for his crimes from pagan 
priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than 
snow. Some said that Constantine had to 
sacrifice an infant to obtain the blood for the 
absolution. 



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CHAPTER V. 

The Great God Baal. 

The palm tree, the candle and the Ashefim 
are symbols and images of Baal, and the two 
last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding 
to the pillars and candles in the worship of 
Jehovah. Around the temple of Jehovah as 
well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land, 
were the ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or 
Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged in a circle 
about the temple, and on each side of each tent 
or Fornix stood a Knight of Kadish. The 
pious people who desired to worship god gave 
up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and en- 
tered into the tent of the Kadish, and the money 
so collected went to the service of god, which 
means the priestly white slavers and the Wor- 
shipful Knights of Kadish. The Kadishim were 
the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and 
dancing girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves 
of the gods. * There is reason to believe that 
the Israelites at an early date applied the name 
of Baal to Jehovah. Baal was represented on 
the high places by pillars,'* as the strange god of 
John's Revelation is pictured on his throne. — 
*'Baal,'* Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most 
beautiful and seductive daughters of the people, 
innocent girls of tender age, were torn from 
their homes by the ruthless priests to fill the 
holy places of god around each temple. The 
priests by constant iteration convinced the 
parents that it was a high honor to be permitted 
to devote their daughters to god, and that as 

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a reward, in the great hereafter, they wotdd 
sit beside the Great White Throne with Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews, 
and all the hod-carriers, who, having washed 
their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, sit 
on their little golden thrones with their dudeens 
in their mouths and their hats gently tilted 
over one eye, while they decorate with tobacco 
juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea. 

At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm 
tree standing in the midst of the garden, and in 
the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone 
pillar around which the Kadishim, at the vernal 
equinox, danced in the nude. This is the day 
dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This 
occult ceremony is one of the most beautiful and 
entrancing in our reftilgent and god-given re- 
ligion. As the Tree of Life stands in the midst 
©f the circle of females, so the rays from the sun 
penetrate the earth and annually renew its life. 
So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated 
the ark, that old box in which the priests kept 
the male and female emblems, and before which 
King David for occult reasons danced in the alto- 
gether. The ark corresponds with the sacred 
Argha of the Hindus, an oblong vessel, a sacrir 
ficial chalice, used in the worship of Isis, Astarte 
and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, contain- 
ing, in the play, the germs of all living things, and 
when we drink out of it at the communion ser- 
vice, we drink eternal life. They planted the 
Tree of Life in the midst of the garden of grove, 
as God planted the tree in the midst of th^ 
Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent 
coiled about the tree in Eden. This is the 
symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol bt 
the female. 

The Israelites were commanded not to 
worship idols, but in the darkest hour of their 

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history, when their own God, Jehovah, had 
sent upon them the plague of serpents and 
consigned them to destruction, then they called 
upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the 
brazen serpent on a cross, the Elevation of the 
Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved. 
Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or 
Devil imtil about 726 B. C. You will see this 
same god on the Masonic chart. 

The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and 
Ben Zoma were to be initiated into the Garden 
of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight, 
and Ben Zoma looked and lost his reason. Euse- 
bius shows that St. James, the brother of Jesus 
and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved 
or took a bath, and he alone could enter into 
the holy places. 

The merry maidens who circulate about the 
May-pole on May-day are devoted devotees of 
the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm 
Sunday carry palm leaves from the sacred palm 
tree to show that we are faithful worshippers of 
the true god Baal. 

In Italy, the clergy had at one time, accord- 
ing to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a thriving trade in 
those things which they called the holy limbs of 
Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male em- 
blems were made of wax and certainly beautiful 
to behold. The divine spirit shining through 
them in resplendent glory cast its radiance afar. 
He who was so fortunate as to possess stiff icient 
filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal 
soul from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life 
and the image of the great god. 

For the form of the piUar as worshipped in 
Syria, see page 121, A. P. & M. C. Symbolism, 
and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen 
the same pillar as adored by us at the Hub of 
Universal Culture, erected there to commemo- 

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rate the birth of American liberty. Let us hope 
that you will get out early in the morning and 
see the blue-bellied Puritans and the codfish 
aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine, 
with their hands thrust through their rosaries, 
praying that this great god may make them 
fruitful. 

*'The superstition of Europe instead of 
being diminished by the introduction of Chris- 
tianity was only turned into a fresh channel. 
The new religion was corrupted by the old fol- 
lies, the worship of the Virgin was substituted 
for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the 
gods. March 25th, Lady's Day, dedicated to 
Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and dedi- 
cated to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the 
effect of their improvement not the cause of 
it."— Buckle's Hist. Civ. 1—188. 



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CHAPTER VI. 
Jehovahy alias Adonai. 

According to the Hebrew lexicon n^ (Yh 
or Ih) is one of the names of God. Y, I and 
J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical 
with the god Yah of the Philistines and lach or 
lachus or Bacchus and lao or lo and Jove. 
Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form 
of Baal, and according to Herodotus is identical 
with Zeus, who is the same as Deus or Jehovah. 
Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is 
said to smile when a human blood sacrifice is 
thrown before his car. 

Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite 
divinity among the Masons. The name of 
this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written 
on the serpent in the magic circle of King Sol- 
omon, which he employed in raising the Devil, 
and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she 
belongs to the sphere of Sattim or Moloch, I 
conclude that she was the goddess of the Witches* 
Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew 
godhead, and she is the third, the supernal 
mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the 
mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Sol- 
omon, 47. 

According to the Standard Dictionary, (see 
**Sephira'') Jehovah is not the Supreme God, 
there is a party named Kether above him, the 
Ancient of Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the 
fourth, next below Binah. He is the god of 
love and mercy, with whom we have no truck. 
We prefer the God of Battles. Baal Poer was 

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worshipped in the groves under the name of 
Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the 
Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh'lh, fol. 62, col. 1, 
that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like 
Christ. Madam Blavatsky says that lachoh, 
lach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis or 
Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves 
and public sods or Mysteries, under the polishing 
hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and 
supreme god of the Christians. The codex 
of the Nazarenes says : *'Thou shalt not worship 
the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and 
El El. This Adonai will elect to himself a 
nation, Jerusalem will become the refuge and 
city of the abortive, who shall circumcise them- 
selves with the sword and shall adore Adonai.'' 
Israel is the same as Adonis. It means son of 
the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel 
was one of the christs, and it was his duty to 
wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he had 
a right to put his brother out and take his place, 
as Christ, the new moon takes the place of the 
old moon (called the old and ugly christ) and 
as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place. 

Haeckel says Jehovah was originally de- 
rived from the heaven god called Moloch and 
Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians 
and Saturn of the Greeks. 

David says : "Who shall ascend into the 
high place of the Lord (lach, in the original)? 
who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu 
(holy ladies)?" — Psalms, 24:3. **Solomon went 
to the high place of Gibeon, for there was the Tab- 
ernacle of God." — 2 Chron. 1:3. You will see 
that the high places were the temples of a foul 
worship by reference to 1 Kings, 3:3. 

Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the 
Hebrews substituted Adonai. The Bacchantes, 
in their orgies or feasts of lachus, pronounced 

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the mystic word 'lo Evohe.'* Ei Eh Ei is I 
Am the I Am, and Ei was found inscribed on the 
temple of Apollo. — Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a 
doll or image of the god Ei, or Kether. 

Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma. 
Every 4,320,000,000 years all the planets in 
our solar system are in conjunction. This 
is one day of Brahma, 365 times that is one 
year, and one hundred of these years is the 
lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and there- 
after we have to worry along without him. 

The Trinity, instead of being a new revela- 
tion of the Christian religion, was taken from 
the trinities of the older pagan religions. The 
Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Per- 
sians and the Egyptians each had a triune or 
hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imag- 
ination, without foundation in nature or reason. 
If we have the only true religion, how is it that 
the Mexicans, before this country was discovered 
by the savages of Etirope, had the trinity, the 
rite of baptism, the sign of the cross and pur- 
gatory. They had the tradition of the flood and 
the escape of Noah, and they offered as an 
oblation little, dough, male images of their savior 
as we do at the communion service. 

Some claimed that the astral light or ether 
was the supreme god, that one portion of it was 
male (spirit), and the other part was female 
(matter), and that the living forms of matter 
produced by the union of these two gods, are 
the third person of the trinity, the son of man. 
Others claim that the incomprehensible god 
back of the ether, of which the latter is an emana- 
tion, is the supreme god, and that the spiritual 
portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the 
material portion of the ether is the mother, and 
the union of the son and the mother produces 
the phenomenal world. This a charming family 

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relationship eminently appropriate to our pot- 
pourri of superstitions, called religion. 

Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: **The 
Sovereign Master, who exists through himself* 
divides his body into two halves, male and 
female, and from the union of these two princi- 
ples is bom Viradj, the son, or material forms; 
The first name of this hermaphrodite god {ft 
the picttire writing was 10. 

Haeckel says that the Christian God is 
a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates was put to 
death because he did not believe in the gods 
and introduced new demoniacal beings (spirits). 

In the Sunday American Magazine was 
also a picture of the Rock of Ages, in fact two 
pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown, 
together with two circles or groves. They 
were found in the ruins of Gaza. These are 
the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon 
worshipped when they hit the high places. 
And we still revere them and have the shafts 
erected over our graves and the wreaths placed 
upon the shafts so that we may be bom again. 
If you do not think that Moses worshipped 
this rock god read Deut. 32 : 8. **0f the rock 
that begat thee thou art immindftd.*' There 
were only seven thousand in all Israel that had 
not kissed the pillar. — 1 Kings, 19 : 18. 

There was also fotmd in the ruins of Gaza 
an oval medallion in which stood *'Horus, the 
strong bull, resplendent in strength,*' Why 
is the Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval 
medallion? Why is the oval, with the Lamb in 
the centre thereof, placed on the front of the 
Infant Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin 
Mary ? This picture of the Infant Jesus is 
a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his 
name embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress, 
to wit, I E S. He holds up three fingers as he 

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was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha, 
and on his head is the seven-rayed headdress 
of Buddha, the god of the seven-rayed sun. 

If you have catarrh, place a medallion of 
the Infant Jesus on your nose, and the catarrh 
will disappear. — Miraculous Infant Jesus of 
Prague, 30. A medal of the Divine Infant has 
been known to cure a sore thumb, if fastened 
in faith to the diseased member and accompanied 
by nine days prayer. — ^Idem 36. A man in 
financial difficulties made a novena (nine days 
prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of 
the devotions somebody gave him $35. Then 
he commenced another novena and was helped 
to v/in a prize in a lottery. Then he commenced 
the third novena, and Jehovah compelled a 
grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage 
on the devotee's house, and another partv gave 
him $10.— Idem 52. 

In the Hebrew Bible you wiU see that 
Bethel, or house of God, referred to in Gene- 
sis, 28 : 19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the 
house of the sim or sun-god, the same as Bothal 
or Brothel, the temple of worship of the Druids 
and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with 
a pillar in the centre, also called paradise. We 
changed the vowels and made it read Beth El, 
as we did not care to have our God related to 
siich trash as Al and Allah, the Arabian god. 

Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that 
the Son is called Wisdom. Refer to '/Sephira/* 
Stand. Die, and you will see that Jehovah is 
named Wisdom and that he is the son of, or 
first emanation from Kether, consequently it is 
claimed that he is one of the christs. The 
only gods ever worshipped were the sun and 
his wife, the moon, to whom he was not legally 
married. The idols are images of incarnate 
sun-gods. 

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CHAPTER VII. 
The Hosti a Human Sacrifice. 

The Monstrance was a conventionalized 
Assyrian Grove, containing the Host, the male 
and female emblems, and corresponded with 
the Ark and was transparent, so that the devo- 
tees could look on the blessed symbols and 
live forever. It was called the Monstrance 
because it contained the henriaphrodite mon- 
ster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees 
of all religions. The directions of St. Cyril, 
of Jerusalem, were : ** After kissing all the broth- 
ers and sisters, you touch the consecrated things 
to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. ''See Ency. 
Brit. 8:632. 

Under the mediimiship of Eugene Vintras 
in Paris, the Devil placed his signature on the 
Hosts of the Church in characters of blood. 
The Abbe Char\^oz brought one of the mirac- 
ulously marked Hosts, bearing the signature 
of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signa- 
tures was the Caduceus of the Greeks, the 
emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined 
about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi 
calls it the Typhonian sign manual because 
by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence 
of the Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in 
the stigmata, asserts that there are only two 
gods, the two powers of the astral light, at- 
traction and repulsion, the creator and the 
destroyer. — Mysteries of Magic. 

**In the case of Father Gerard in 1731, 
who was tried at Aix, in France, for resorting 

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to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner, 
Mile. Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he 
breathed upon her, and that she instantly con- 
ceived a violent love for him and had extatic 
visions and hysterical convulsions, and stigmata 
or blood marks of . the Passion appeared upon 
her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on 
her brow, of nails in her hands atid feet, and 
of a lance cut in her side. Of the twenty five 
judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the 
stake/'— Isis Unveiled, 2-633. 

The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the 
myth that the bread and wine become the 
actual body and blood of God, originated among 
the Hindus, and we stole it from them. The 
god Brahma was the astral light or magnetism, 
and when the priests charged the hosts with 
magnetism, they were charged with god, and 
consequently were gods. It is said that each 
separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ, 
so thousands of Christs were served up at a 
feast to be eaten by the savage devotees, and 
each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his 
dastard soul. It is called the Host because they 
knifed him or struck him down, and it is called 
the Eucharist because they rejoice over his 
death and make a joyful feast upon the carcass. 
The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites of antiq- 
uity, instituted many hundreds of years before 
the Lord's Supper. It was a repetition of the 
drama in Eden in commemoration of the fall 
into generation. By the worship of the foul 
idols in the Monstrance, by the idolatry of the 
Eucharist the pagans euchred the Devil out 
of their souls. 

The Eucharist was a hiunan sacrifice. The 
devotees groveling in abject superstition, offered 
up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained 
altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to 

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wash their sins away- At the twelfth general 
council of the Church, the bread and wine was 
made the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the 
Council of Trent they added the soul. So at the 
orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the 
body and soul of his savior by casting him into 
his carrion carcass, into that chamel house, into 
that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from 
which there is no escape, there to rot and disin- 
tegrate and forever die. Thus they subjected 
their savior to the foulest method of annihilation 
to save their worthless souls from Hell. 

At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over 
250,000 lambs to propitiate some blood-loving 
god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran 
red with the life blood of these innocent creatures. 
And certain beasts still sing: **And sinners 
plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty 
stains." **Such a blood-sacrifice is imworthy of 
any people except the worshippers of some 
heathen devil-god in darkest Africa." — Mystic 
Christianity, 65. 

When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella 
Bartlett, at Lincoln, England, in 1521, expressed 
their opinions too freely on religious matters, 
they were burned at the stake by Bishop John 
Longland, but they were a pestiferous and sedi- 
tious lot. They even objected to eating the 
male emblems, or images of the male, on commun- 
ion day, and these double-dyed heretics denied 
the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in 
the images. 

Here is what Taine says as to this affair: 
**The Bishops had received the right of imprison- 
ing without trial laymen suspected of heresy, 
and the jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and 
sins was given to the ecclesiastical tribunals. 
They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what 
shamelessness this power was transformed into 

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a vehicle for extortions. A man begins to think 
when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself 
if it is really by divine dispensation that mitred 
thieves thus practice tyranny and pillage. He 
wants to know if they themselves practice the 
regularity that they impose on others, and he 
learns strange things. Cardinal Wolsey writes 
to the Pope that both the secular and regular 
priests were in the habit of com.mitting atrocious 
crimes, for which, if not in orders, they would 
have been promptly executed. A priest con- 
victed of incest with the prioress of KHboum was 
condemned to carry a cross in a procession and 
pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of Henry 
VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvon- 
shire laid a complaint accusing the clergy of sys- 
tematically seducing their wives and daughters. 
The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath 
but six children, and but one daughter married 
yet of the goods of the monastery, trusting 
shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors 
found concubines in the secret apartments of the 
Abbots. At the nunnery of Sion the confessors 
seduced the ntms and absolved them at the same 
time. There were convents, Burnett tells us, 
where all the recluses were foimd pregnant.'* — - 
Taiae's English Literature, 2-18. 

''Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521, 
summons the relatives of the accused, brothers, 
women and children, and administers the oath. 
As they have already been prosecuted and have 
abjured, they must make oath, or they are re- 
lapsed, and the fagots await them. Then they 
denounce their kinsmen and themselves. Three 
of the accused were charged with passing the 
night together in reading the scriptures. Several 
of them at church, at the moment of the Elevation 
wovild not say their prayers and remained seated 
dumb as beasts. A brazier^ denied the real pres- 

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ence. Six were bximt alive. The children of 
John Scrivener were themselves obliged to set 
fire to their father's funeral pyre. They saw 
him, boimd by an iron chain, with clasped hands, 
praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame 
blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such 
sights are not forgotten." — Idem. 

**At the peril of his life the Englishman ob- 
tains some portion of the Bible, which Tyndale 
had just translated, and hides it and learns it b}^ 
heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned, 
htmted, in concealment, his mind full of the idea 
of a speedy death and of the Great God, for whom 
at last he mounted the funeral pyre."— Idem, 2-21. 

If you do not believe that Priapus is christ, 
see Ency. Brit. 19-170, where he is represented 
as the shepherd god with a shepherd's crook, and 
as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen, 
giving them abundant harv^ests. And sailors, 
in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter did. 

*-The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for 
Hirarri Abiff , as the worshippers in the EleusiniaJi 
Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora." In the 
grand finale the Mystics say: *'I have taken the 
emblems from the kiste, and after kissing and 
tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and 
from the bag back into the kiste." 

In the first illustrated English Bible, the 
Devil will be seen, wearing a pair of wings and a 
Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: 'Take 
this fruit, bite it and taste it." You will see 
that the thing presented to her is not an apple at 
all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am. 
Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in 
another illustration there the angel Gabriel, 
with the Word strapped on his back, descending 
into Hell to deliver the souls in torment. 

Yesterday in passing a great church, when I 
raised my eyes to the cross, I there beheld on each 

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arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered 
article that the Devil offered to Eve. This 
blessed and holy symbol is found engraven over 
the portals of the eternal rock temples of the 
ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in 
the time of Esau and his son Edom, as well as 
over the doors of the ancient churches of Ireland, 
and on the modem cathedrals. In fact this 
aesthetic Eye worship extends around the world, 
starting in the slums of India, it has circled the 
globe. 

The Christian religion was copied largely 
from the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were 
founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens. 
These mysterious rites were employed in the 
worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god, or 
Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers in- 
dulged in the foul orgies of the Agape, The men 
carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the fe- 
males carried the kiste or box. Placing the 
Signa Tau in the kiste caused them to be bom 
again and saved their souls from Tophet. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 
Jesus Christ. 

If the clergymen tell you that there is 
only one christ, politely present. them with the 
seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions, 
had twelve christs. Christ was never cruci- 
fied, but the human race was crucified by re- 
ligion from its very inception, and the Christian 
world wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of: 
ignorance and superstition till in the middle ages,, 
the golden age, no king in Europe could read and 
write, 

Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of 
the Aryans, who was called the Son of God and 
the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by 
us by the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that 
holds in his hoof a cross and some banner, per-» 
haps the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition. 
Adam Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd, 
and Hermes, the patron of thieyes and flocks, the 
son of Deus and Maia, these and many other 
gods are all identical, with christ. , Noah was the 
christ that canie in the sign of the Waterman 25, 
868 years ago. In the Babylonian legend the 
deluge continued seven days, and the ship landed 
on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of the great 
god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he 
did when he got ashore was to ^et drunk. He is 
also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian god Osiris 
who was bom on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month 
of Nisan or Easter. 

Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: *% 
virgin named Mariam,. betrothed to one Johannaji 

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was outraged by another man named Joseph 
Panther. Her betrothed left her. The child born 
was Jesns, named Joshua, adopted by his uncle 
Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the 
secret doctrines by Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist, 
and then by the Egyptian priests, who conse- 
crated him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret 
Doctrine. Upon his returning to Judea his 
learning and powers excited the jealousy of the 
rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with 
his origin and insulted his mother.'' 

According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi, 
**From her third to her twelfth year Mary was in 
the Temple. When she became of nubile age, 
lest she should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord, 
she was committed to the guardianship of Joseph, 
an elderly man and a widower with a family. 
When the Virgin's pregnancy was discovered, 
Joseph and she were brought before the high 
priest, and though asserting their innocence 
in all sincerity, were acquitt^ only after they 
had been tried with the water of the ordeal of 
the Lord."— Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was 
then a virgin and ever after remained so, al- 
though she had other children. 

The author does not beUeve that either of 
the above passages refers to the Christian Jesus. 
He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew. 

The christs were all illegitimate. Their par- 
ents, the sun and moon, would have complied with 
the idiotic human laws if there had been any 
magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There 
was Asphalius of Greece, bom of the Virgin 
Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romidus 
and Remus, alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini, 
the Twins of the zodiac. They were sons of 
a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius, 
tX)rresponding with Herod, commanded his ser- 
vant to destroy the two children, but the sen^ant 

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put them in a trough or ark, and they floated 
on the river as Moses, who was also a christ, 
did in his ark, and as the males and females 
did in Noah*s Ark. Their mother claimed 
that their father was the god Mars. Unmarried 
ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their 
children up to the gods. — See Plutarch, 1 : 33. 
Christ is a mythical stm-god, a rebirth of 
the sun in a new sign of the zodiac. The Chm*ch 
Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy 
Land, could claim that any Jesus of that region 
was the Son of God, either Jesus, the bandit 
of Galilee, or the one described above, as long 
as his name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt, 
and as long as he was dead and could not defend 
himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that 
lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the 
Tetrarch was Jesus of GalUee, the captain of a 
band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious person 
and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mari- 
ners and poor people. He sacked the temple at 
Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5. 

Renan says that Philo, who died about 50 
A. D., and who was bom before Jesus, and who 
lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching 
of Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus 
does not mention a Christian sect at all. The 
Emperor Adrian called the Christians worship- 
pers of Serapis, and that was probably the truth. 
Serapis is the De\al, with horns, Lord of the 
Underworld. 

Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like 
Christ, were good shepherds. The Hindus rep- 
resent Christna as crucified on the cross between 
two thieves, with the nail marks in his hands, 
and with a crown of seven points to show that he 
is the seventh avatar. His father v/as a carpen- 
ter, and he slew the great serpent Caliva and was 
worshipped in India ages before the Christian Era. 

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The doctrine of Christ and the atonement 
originated in heathendom. It came from the 
pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters 
of himian flesh in human gore imbued. They 
took the doctrine from the Chaldean Kabala. 
It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was 
the god of the vine, and his worshippers drank 
his blood to wash their sins away. He was the 
son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He 
was slain or sacrificed at the winter solstice and 
went down into Hell. Hera, who corresponds 
with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He 
was honored by festivals at Christmas, when the 
sun died, and at Easter when it was resurrected. 
His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat. 
The Christians of Rome were ridiculed for wor- 
shipping an ass-headed god. The symbol of the 
Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical 
with the serpent raised by the Hebrews in the 
wilderness. Heya means a female serpent and 
constitutes a part of god, the second part of the 
name Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphro- 
dite god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva, 
the female, or serpent, or Devil. 

Christ not only never rose from the dead, 
but he never existed. The doctrine of vicarious 
atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian's 
hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing an- 
other to suffer for his sins, has taken wings and 
flown away. 

The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian 
sects, formerly called Essenes, claimed that 
Christ was a phantom, that he was neither bom 
nor suffered on the cross. See Book of All Re- 
ligions, 213. Origen believed the same. He 
tells of the popular irrational Christianity based 
on the fictitious gospel history devised to assist 
the masses, who could not comprehend a spiritual 
Christ.— Mystic Christianity, 211. 

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Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable 
doctrine of the forgiveness of sins is the cause of 
three foiirths of the crimes of so-called Chris- 
tians. The murdered victim goes to Hell in the 
midst of his sins, but the murderer receives ab- 
solution and goes to Heaven and sits with Christ 
beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: ^ **If 
any of you commit sin under the belief that he 
shall be saved by somebody, both the deceiver 
as well as the deceived shall be damned to the 
day of Rasla Khaz. There is no savior. In the 
other world you shall receive the return accord- 
ing to your actions. Your savior is your good 
deeds.** Plato says in 2-187: **Even if there 
are gods, they can be bribed by prayers and offer- 
ings, so it is better to be unjust and offer of the 
fruits of injustice to the gods. By our sinning 
and praying and praying and sinning, the gods 
will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.*' 

The Jews offered seven lambs at the new 
moon because the Lamb came seven times. It 
is to be noted that they gave none of the offering 
to God except the refuse, the extremities and the 
fat and the lobe of the liver, but the priests had 
the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord 
and the mob were welcome to the offal. « 

We are saved by the blood of christ or Pri- 
apus, but the Jews were saved by the blood of 
the eirctmicision of Abraham, who was also a 
christ. "Abraham was circimicised on the day 
of the atonement, and God looks that day an- 
nually on the blood of the covenant of our father 
Abraham's circumcision as atoning for all our 
iniquities." — Talmud Yalcut Chadish, fol. 121, 
sec. 3. 

When the young and beautiftd philosopher, 
HjT^atia, disclosed these sacred religious secrets 
in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her 
chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian 

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chiirch, stripped naked and ravished at the 
very feet of the idol of Christ, and then beaten 
to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was 
cut into pieces, the flesh scraped from the 
bones with oyster shells, and the remnants 
cast into the fire by the order of the canonized 
saint, Bishop Cyril of Alexandria. — Ency. Brit. 
12 : 596. 

A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea, 
was one who had consecrated himself to Bosheth, 
(a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Naz- 
areth that the Nazarenes anciently held their 
Witches' Sabbath. Bosher is the Hebrew name 
of the Tree of Infamy. The **Sod of the Ka- 
dishim,'* Psalms, 89 : 7, is rendered by the 
translators ** Assembly of the Saints,'' when 
it was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted 
to the service of the Temple. Sod was the 
name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient 
Mysteries in Sodom, and the nature of the 
sacred ceremonies may be gathered from the 
name. They were the same as those of the 
ancient Christian Agape or Love Feast. 

It is claimed that ApoUonius of Tyana 
was the original of Christ, for the former was 
worshipped in Rome in the third century as 
the savior of man, and that no such person 
as Jesus Christ was then known. There was 
a sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos. 
Their religion was a mixture of Buddhism and 
Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic 
cross within the circle. The Christian religion 
takes its name and symbols from this Hindu 
religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian 
says that the Christians spoke of ApoUonius, 
called in Romans Apollos, as a god and took 
him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the 
title of Master. 

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Prior to the sixth Eoiminical Council, 
680 A. D., the Christians worshipped an animal 
idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from 
ancient monuments that the pagans had wor- 
shipped the same idol. So the Council decreed 
that the figure of a man should be placed on the 
cross, Christ was not nailed to the cross until 
680 A. D. and then by the Ecuminical Council. - 
—Idem 161. 

The pagan priests, at a very early date in 
the present era, finding that they were losing 
their hold on the people, concocted from pagan 
originals a new rehgion called the Christian As 
a sop to the depraved and besotted worshippers 
of virgin-bom gods, they alleged that their god 
was bom of the Virgin Mary, and they seized 
upon and falsified the Hindu gospels, containing 
the life of Buddha, tiU they were made to appear 
to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster 
up tnis foul imposition and conceal the origin of 
Christiaoity, they destroyed the records of 
Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and 
sank the world in darkness for a thousand years, 
filling it with woe and bloodshed. The success 
of this crime against their fellowmen set back 
the hands of time two thousand years. See 
Doubts of Infidels. 

The doctrine of blood atonement came from 
Phoenicia, where they continually indulged in 
himian sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of 
the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at 
the altar of the stm-god to avert the threatened 
calamity. **From the sixth hour there was 
darkness over all the land until the ninth hour." 
And on these altars, 2600 B. C, was I H S or 
I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics 
is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I 
represents the father god, and O the mother god, 
and S represents the son or serpent. The serpent 

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was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and 
Jews as a saving rite. 

At the church festival of TezcatHpoca in 
Mexico, they chose a prisoner as the incarnate 
representative of god and placed a garland and 
an embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews 
did on Christ. Then they led him to the temple, 
where the priest cut his heart out and held the 
sacred bleeding heart up to the sim, and his 
body was eaten by the church members, as we 
eat the body of our Savior. 

Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis: 
**Not a single passage written in the first century 
Can be produced from any independent authority 
to show the existence of such a person as Jesus 
Christ or his disciples.'* The silence of all con- 
temporary writers respecting Jesus Christ is a 
notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal, 
Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Lucian, w^ho lived in 
that period, make no allusion to his works, nor 
even mention his name. — Doubts of Infidels, 66. 

The Christ Prometheus died for the salvation 
erf the world and was nailed on the cross many 
hundreds of years before the Christian Era. 
And the christ Esculapius, the Great Physician, 
healed the sick and raised the dead and died in 
the West and rose again in the East. 

Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign 
of the Goat in the Buddhist zodiac is represented 
by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred 
Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the 
sun entered the sign of the Leviathan in December 
it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited 
out again three days later on the 25th of Decem- 
ber, when the sun commenced to return. Hence 
the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been 
so hard to swallow, and which has taxed our 
piety to the limit. 

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les is the Phoenician name of the god Bac- 
chus, les, or lesu, or Jesus was stolen from the 
Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos 
was taken from the Hindus and thrown to- 
gether into the melting pot of Potoman of 
Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman 
compiled the Christian religion from Hindu, 
Greek and Egyptian originals. 

If God made man in his own image, why 
does he have to be redeemed? It is true that 
man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because 
he obeyed the command of God to increase and 
multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was not 
virgin bom, but was a virgin spirit split off of 
God and came to redeem the world. If he re- 
deemed the world, how is it that the people are 
worse now than they ever were, that the histor>^ 
of his religion has been a history of depravity, 
vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has now 
culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage 
and slaughter, of which the fiends in Hell would 
be incapable? How is it that the beasts, which 
have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits, 
the lambs, the deer, are far superior to us who 
were bought by the blood? 



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CHAPTER IX 

Hell-fire and Brimstone, 

You*ll bxim in Hell ten thousand years, 

In vain will be your cries and tears, 

Youll btim in Hell till ages meet, 

And just begin to feel the heat. — ^Amasa Alden. 

We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says 
that **the demons who were cast out of Heaven 
and the descendants of the witless progeny of 
matter and spirit became in the course of time 
the men of our planet, after having passed 
through every form of every one of the elements." 

mere did the Church dig up Hell? The 
Scandinavian Hell is not a place of pvmishment, 
but simply the abode of the dead. The diction- 
ary says that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is 
the abode of all the departed, the imseen spirit 
world. The Shoel of tlie Hebrews is the place 
of departed spirits, not a region of torment. 
The Underworld or Amenti, of the Egyptians, 
is a region of judgment and purification. The 
Onderah, the abyss of darkness of the Hindus, 
is an intermediate state or purgatory. Whence 
then came the dogma of HeU, that Archimedean 
lever of Christian theology, with which they 
have succeeded in holding in subjection the 
ntimberless millions of Christians for nineteen 
centtiries. — Isis Unveiled. 

Here is where Eusebius and the other 
Biblical writers got Hell. According to Ma- 
habad, the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who 
wrote all the laws of God, Hell is peopled with 

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ants, serpents and scorpions, ignorant, sick 
and indigent men and irreligious philosophers, 
and on account of the detestable qualities of 
the later, the ants, serpents and scorpions 
pounce upon and torture them. This is the 
Hell of Hells. Dabistan, 81. 

In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kaba- 
lists, representing their idea of the creation 
of the imiverse, the last and most insignificant 
creation is the earth, which they have labeled 
Hell, the abode of the Devil, the Kingdom of 
the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists. 

In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has 
attained the final knowledge of the heavenly 
and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete 
reunion with the spirit, and knows the Word, 
at the death of the body, it becomes a god, or 
is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral 
light, and becomes one of the creative deities 
or Elohim. If not, it has its part in the lake 
of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second 
death. This death is the gradual dissolution 
of the astral body into its primal elements and 
the banishment of the himian spirit or electron 
into chaos. 

Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones 
have said that the astral light is the Great 
Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil 
anyway, no matter which path we pursue. 
What difference does it make whether we are 
united to the astral light or the material ether? 
All the atoms of all the elements have indi- 
vidual souls. 

Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the 
Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian Thor, the 
Greek Apollo and St, Patrick, the Irish christ, 
are all represented as killing the Great Ser- 
pent, the Devil. All of the christs, including 
Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and As- 

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kelapius, as well as Jesus, descended into Hell 
and ascended again the third day. According 
to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam, 
Moses, David, Isaiah and all the other saints 
there, and as they had been burning in Hell 
several thousand years, their wings were pretty 
well singed and they were badly mussed up^ 
but Christ took them by the ha;nds and led 
them up to the Hebrew heaven, where' the 
three balls are worshipped* together with the 
ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left 
to rule over except the depraved, uncircimi- 
cised gentiles and the elemental demons. The 
GentUes cannot get past the gates of Tophet, 
but must linger for a time, and half a time, and 
ten thousand times while they do battle with 
the phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the 
Serpent of the Great Abyss. 

**The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland de- 
lighted in telling their hearers that they would 
be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks 
by their tongues. They were to be lashed with 
scorpions and see their companipns writhing 
and howling around them. They were to be 
thrown into boiling oil and scalding lead. A 
river of fire and brimstone broader than the 
earth was prepared for them, their bones, their 
lungs and their liver were to boil but never 
be consimied, and while worms were gnawing 
at their bodies, they were to be surrotmded 
by devils mocking and making pastime of their 
pains, the torment to be varied in its character 
as well as eternal in its duration. Hell was 
created before man came into the world, the 
Almighty having spent his previous leisure in 
preparing this place of torment, so that when 
the himian race appeared, it might be ready 
for their reception/* — ^Buckle's Hist. Civ. 2* 
293. 

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Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in 
the immediate atmosphere of the earth, where 
the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of 
the spiritual planes, where God lives, but as 
nobody to speak of ever goes there, no one on 
the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit 
that he exists, arid any spirit that claims that 
he has seen God is either deceiving us or is 
himself niistaken. He may have seen some 
astral idol, formed from the astral substance 
by the imagination and worshipped by the 
religion-besotted spirits. **The aura of the spir- 
its in the lowest astral plane is the same as 
that of wicked htmian beings, a dark, cloudy 
or smoky emanatiori, streaked with the red 
flames of anger and passion. Deep shades 
of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning- 
like flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of 
lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the surface, having 
all the appearance of an inferno, and the region 
itself has the same aura, derived from the com- 
bined auras of its inhabitants. It is not sur- 
prising that the witches and wizards of the 
Bible, who could see by clairvoyant vision, 
described it as a Hell of fire and brimstone.'' 
— Human Aura, 45. 

According to the religion of Zoroaster, 
/*Hell is the House of Destruction. It is the 
abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,'* 
that is, all religions except the Persian, but 
this is not to be taken seriously, as every re- 
ligion is a joke. Here we have the original 
doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which 
our Christian ministers have had the consum- 
mate nerve to preach even here in this age of 
the world. 

Mark Twain says in ''The Mysterious 
Stranger": **A God who mouths justice and 
mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules 

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and forgiveness and invented Hell, who mouths 
morals to other people and has none himself, 
who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them 
all, who created man without invitation, then 
tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's 
acts upon man, instead of placing it where it 
belongs upon himself." The trouble with Mark 
was that he accepted as true all that silly super- 
stition, all those puerile fairy tales, all those 
black lies from the Pit of Hell written and taught 
b}^ the old priests and prophets. God never 
created the human race, he never made HeU. 
This cruel remark of Mark is libelous, almost 
bordering on blasphemy. 

Read what the insane Chturch Fathers 
said : ** There in Hell the intelligent fire bums 
the limbs and restores them, feeds on them 
and nourishes them/' — ^Felix. 

The proud monarchs and magistrates (and 
everybody but the Christians) shall liquefy in 
the fierce flames of Hell. — ^Tertullian. 

We shall be compensated by a perpetual 
spectacle of our persecutors in an ever-burning 
Gehenna being devoured by living flames. 
— Cyprian. 

Ling or the Word is the Commander-in- 
chief of the universe. — Clement. 

Every sinner kindles for himself the flame 
of his own fire, and is not plunged into som.e 
fire kindled by another. — Origen. 

The wicked will be provided not with the 
old earthly body, but with an indestructible 
body capable of holding out forever against 
everlasting fire.— Lactantius. 

The whole mass of the himian race is con- 
demned. If we can pray the wicked out of 
Hell, we can pray the devils out. — Augustine. 

Everybody, infants included, go to Hell, 
unless they are baptized. — ^Ambrose. 

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There shall be eternal torments for all 
devils and skeptics. — ^Jerome. 

Votive offerings by the living will reduce 
the torments of the dead. The blessed shall 
rejoice over the punishment of the damned. 
— ^Aquinas. 



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CHAPTER X. 
The Devil, 

Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the 
Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St. Patrick, drove 
all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken 
Bacchus, whose Saturnalia was held on the 
17th of March, when they poured out libations 
to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus, 
and his coffin and relics, endowed with magical 
and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome 
according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160. 

Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier 
Persian religion. Dyaus means to shine, and 
was a name of the sun. The followers of Zo- 
roaster asserted that Dyaus was the Devil, 
and if they were right, it follows that Deus is 
the Devil. In this connection read the Lord's 
Prayer, in which the ignorant worshipper en- 
deavors to persuade the Lord not to lead him 
into temptation. According to the writers of 
the Bible, who were probably liars, He hardened 
the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites 
to steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent 
lying messages to the prophets. In Samuel 
it says that the Lord moved David to number 
Israel, but according to Chronicles it was the 
Devil who put him up to it. The words divine 
and de\dl are from Deva, the shining one, the 
Hindu god of light. Light is also luc, and 
Lucifer is a sun-god identical with Yahvah. 
The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura 
Mazda, of the Zoroastrians was the Devil. 
Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he 

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is our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews, 
Kether, the father of Jehovah. According to 
the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes, 
the creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel 
of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is Satan. Aaron 
sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical 
with Moloch or the Devil. The Bible says 
that **man shall devote tmto the Lord of all 
that he hath, both of man and beast. None 
devoted shall be redeemed, but shall surely 
be put to death/' We conclude that god and 
the Devil are one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus, 
Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove, Bacchus, 
Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are 
different names of the same god, and that god 
is a myth. 

The Devil is an emanation of god. He is 
Typhon, also called Sat and Seth in the Egyptian 
religion. The Ency. Brit, says that he is a 
brother or son of Osiris, and we have shown 
that Osiris and god are one, so we conclude 
that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in 
Job, 1:6. The Salvation Army says: **You 
must be a lover of the lord if you want to go 
to Heaven when you die.'* So you must love 
the Devil and all these beasts of pagan gods, 
or you will have to shovel coal while the endless 
years of eternity roll. 

The Pentagram, by the power of which 
Solomon could summon the high gods to his 
assistance or call up the goblins damned, repre- 
sents God when one horn of the star is in the 
ascendent or at the top, but when the two horns 
are in the ascendent, it represents the DevU 
or the goat. When Solomon summoned Ga- 
briel to help him capture a new girl, the head 
of the star, on which is the mystic eye, was 
pointed toward the alter of evocation. But 
if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of 

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the goat were pointed toward the altar. In 
the infernal invocation Solomon wore a leaden 
cap, on which were the signs of the Moon, 
Venus and Saturn. . He had two candles of 
human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper 
vase holding the blood of the htiman victim, a 
censer containing incense moistened with the 
blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of 
an executed criminal, the head of a black cat 
which has been fed on human flesh for five 
days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an 
immoral goat, the scull of a parricide. Then 
Solomon says in the evocation of the Devil : 
'"By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai 
Jehovah (the Son), Adonai Sabbaoth (the Moth- 
er), by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by 
the Word of the Python and the. Mystery of 
the Salamanders, by the Conclave of the Sylphs 
and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in 
Heaven and Alamousin and Gibor, Come ! 
Come ! Come ! 

On the Pentagram is the mystic word 
nin**, Yahvah, the spelling of which indicates 
that it represents two hermaphrodite gods. 
n**, Yah, is the good god, and HI, Vah, is 
the god of evil. The good god is represented 
in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the 
god or love, and his wife, the queen of diamonds. 
And the hermaphrodite god of evil is repre- 
sented by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, 
the queen of clubs. Aristotle said that Jehovah 
was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the 
god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom, 
so is the Egyptian serpent god, called Sat or 
Satan. 

The serpent god is the astral light, the 
magnetic current. The priests by their great 
will power could direct this current at pleasure 
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held enthralled their besotted devotees. They 
claimed that they were serpents because the 
serpent god magnetism penneated their bod- 
ies. A manuscript found among the Toltecs 
of Mexico asserted that they were descended 
from the house of Israel. Voltan, the Mexican 
demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes. 
The hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called 
themselves the sons of the serpent god. The 
chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans 
says : **I am a snake myself." The Druids 
of Britain used to say : **I am a serpent, I am 
a Druid.''— Isis Unveiled. 

Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent) 
of Egypt was the supreme god, the flying dragon, 
the divine spirit permeating all creation, like 
the serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit 
is electricity. The Ophites, Christian Gnostics, 
claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was 
Jesus Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe, 
or Cohen Eph. Eve represented matter, and the 
spirit permeating matter produces living beings. 

The astral light is both god and the Devil, 
the creator and the destroyer and also the Nir- 
vana of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the 
Hindus, or lah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It 
is life or the life-giving fluid. It is the Od and 
Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts 
on those that are drawn within its current it is 
the Ob or Python. Moses was determined to 
exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its 
influence, allowed themselves to fall under the 
control of the vicious beings which move in the 
astral waves like fish in the water. — Isis Un- 
veiled, 1-158. Porphery says that ** these beings 
are mischievous and deceitful, though some are 
gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have the 
greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals. 

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Their powers of reasoning are in a latent state, 
and therefore they themselves irresponsible/' 
But St. Augustine says: **These spirits are de- 
ceitfid through malice. They pass themselves 
off for gods and for the souls of the defunct.'* 
St. Jerome says that some of these elementary 
spirits or satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats, 
were exhibited at Alexandria, and one of them 
was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constan- 
tine, which he highly appreciated, as he was 
usu^y in the same condition. The Devil says, 
according to Edgar Allan Poe: **In a climate so 
sultry as mine it is frequently impossible to keep 
a spirit alive for more than two or three hours, 
and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled 
spirit is not good eating) they will smell.'* 

They called out sixty thousand militia in 
Gevennes, France, in 1700 to drive the Devil out 
of the boys and girls and babes at the breast 
who prophesied in pure French, a language un- 
known to them. The Prior reported to Rome 
that the Devil was so powerful that no torture 
and no amoimt of exorcism is able to dislodge 
him. He says he closed their hands on burning 
coals, and they were not even singed, that he 
wrapped their bodies in cotton soaked with oil 
and set them on fire and could not even blister 
their skins, that balls were shot at them and 
found flattened between the skin and clothes. 

Perhaps the greatest ntmiber of miracles 
ever performed in the world were pulled off by 
the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727 
to 1749. The sick were ctured, the deaf made to 
hear and the blind to see. Often a young girl 
among the convulsionaries would bend back into 
an arc, her loins supported by the sharpened 
point of an iron rod, and beg to be pounded with 
a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling. 
The stone was allowed to fall repeatedly with all 

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its weight upon her abdomen, and the girl en- 
joyed it and cried for more, and no injury was 
found upon her person. When violent blows 
were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill 
held against her stomach she cried out: **0! 
how delightful, that does me good. Strike twice 
as hard if you can." — Isis Unveiled. 



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CHAPTER XI 
Life Cells. 

I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed 
by Christians to be the First Cause, but the 
asstmiption of a first cause is quite imnecessary, 
and further, if you posttilate a creative god, some 
impertinent person might ask 3^ou who made God. 
It is just as well to start with matter, in w^hich 
mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal, 
infinite, immortal, self-existent and sustaining, 
requiring no supreme power as a basis or back- 
groxmd, as set forth in the Sankhya System of 
the Hindus. See Phil. & Relig. of India, 55, 

The attraction or love of one mass of matter 
for another is the energy. It is that love that 
creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after 
other atoms, even as you and I. There can be 
no attraction without mind. Anaxagoras and 
Empedodes believed in a dualism of mind and 
matter. The latter says: **The periods of the 
formation of the world depend upon the alternate 
prevalence of love and hate. During certain 
periods all heterogeneous atoms are separated 
from each other by hate, during others they are 
everywhere united by love. 

Haeckel says: * These three fundamental 
attributes, matter, force and sensation, are fotmd 
inseparably tmited throughout the whole tmi- 
verse in every atom and every molecule." 

Edgar Man Poe says: "That which is not 
matter is not at all. The ultimate unparticled 
matter not only permeates all things but impels 
all things. This matter is God. What men at- 

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tempt to embody in the word 'thought* is this 
matter in motion. The tmparticled matter, or 
God, in quiescence is what men call mind. The 
motion of the unparticled matter is the universal 
thought of the universal mind. This thought 
creates. All things are but the thought of God, 
For new individualities gross matter is necessary. 
To create individual, thinking beings, it was 
necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine 
Mind. Thus man is individualized. Divested 
(rf corporate investiture, he were God. 

According to the Ionic philosophy matter 
is by nature endowed with life, and life is in- 
separably connected with matter. — Ueberweg's 
Hist, of Philosophy, 1-32. 

It is said that in the beginning a male electron 
or spirit, or purusha, or soul, from the spirit 
principle of the universe, becoming involved in 
the material ether, formed a vortex, about which 
the female or material electrons of the ether 
revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis 
of all visible forms. The electron attracts 
the particles of matter in the ether as a magnet 
attracts steel. The electrons are called imits 
of electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand 
in an atom. The space between these ions 
is comparatively as great as the space between 
the planets of ovir solar system. Leucippus, 
of Abdera, says that souls are round atoms. 

The religious claim that the Divine Thought 
or Word originated the vortex movement. As 
John did not care to proclaim that his god was 
Ling, which he had stolen from the Hindus, 
he called it the Word, another meaning of Ling, 
from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric 
meaning designed for fools, and the other is 
the esoteric or hidden meaning known only to 
the initiates. I think that the Christians are 
in error in claiming John's god as their own, 

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but amid such a flock of gods the confusion 
is not siuprising. 

**New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven, 
it assumed a mortal form. Virgin receive 
God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the 
womb. Becoming incarnate in time, and ani- 
mated by her body, it was found in rnortal 
image, and a boy was created.'' — Plutarch, 
Isis and Osiris, 17. Christna or the Word, the 
Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and, 
he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He 
was bom in the cave of Veiius, as all Simon- 
pure christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in 
seeking to kill him, ordered the destruction of 
all male infants. He also had two fathers, 
God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb. 
He and the god Vishnu were one.— Phil. & 
Relig. of India, 278. 

The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral 
light, or Brahma, (electricity) originated the 
vortex movement that formed the atoms. Akasa 
is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy, 
the all-directing and omnipotent god. It was 
the indispensable agent of every magical per- 
formance, and the Brahmans said that the/ 
had to stir up Brahma in order to perform a 
trick in magic to delude their devotees. Madam 
Blavatsky says: ^*As God creates so can man 
create. By the action of the will power on the 
atoms he can call objective forms into being. 
The atoms are like automatic workmen moved 
by the influx of the will directed upon them.'* 
**Every motion we make, every word we utter 
gives an imptJse to the ether and thus creates 
atoms. '* — ^Edgar Allan Poe. 

Aristotle says: **The world always was 
and always will be. The ether fills the celestial 
spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are 
formed.** The atoms combine to form molecules, 

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and these, being attracted together, form the 
gases of which nebulae are composed. These 
nebulae follow the same circular movement 
that prevails in the atoms, and the result of 
this movement is a solar system, the nucleus 
of which becomes the sun. The rings that 
separate from the main body in this revolution 
eventually break up and form planets. When 
these planets cool, we find all the atomic souls 
either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks 
or in the central fire. The sea beats up against 
the rocks, and the rains descend upon and 
disintegrate them and thus release the souls 
that were imprisoned there in the process of 
involution. Now they commence to evolve 
toward what the egotistic have termed man*s 
high estate. 

Yogi Ramacharaka says: '*TheYogi teach^- 
ing informs us that even In the molten mass 
there were elementary forms that were to 
become the ancestral forms of the later living 
beings. From these elementary forms there 
gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and 
solidified, other forms, and so on until at last 
the first living form manifested. The lowest 
forms of what we call life were evolved from 
forms of crystal life, which indeed they very 
much resemble. 

Haeckel, the world*s greatest scientist, says: 
**Man descends immediately from the ape, and 
secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates 
back to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man 
appeared on the earth about three million years 
ago." — Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaxi- 
mander, of Miletus, says: ** Living beings arose 
by gradual development out of the elementary 
moisture under the influence of heat. We land 
animals had in the beginning the form of 
fishes.'* — Ueberweg, 1:35. 

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The atoms combining by their own desire 
and will formed a molecule, and the molecules 
by their own volition combined to form a life 
cell, our earliest ancestor, a minute, animate 
mass of protoplasm, the lowest form of animal 
life, bom in the sltmi of the ocean bed millions 
of years ago. Myriads of these life cells form 
the human body. Each cell is a distinct in- 
dividual, having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel 
$ays that the primordial living substance is 
plasm. We can live only by eating other living 
beings or plasm, that is, by cannib^ism. Plants 
create living plasm out of alleged non-living mat- 
ter, they form carbo-hydrates, and from these form 
plasm by a combination with water, carbolic 
acid, ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to 
have souls, but deny them to the plants, the 
divine creators whose chemical laboratories, 
the cells, are beyond human comprehension. 

The cells arrange themselves in the embryo 
in the form of a human being by their own 
will. ''They use the materials which are at 
hand, fabricating organs for themselves by 
instinct, and in the appointed hour are born 
in the shape which they have formed for them- 
selves.*' — Enoch, ch. 14. The human embryo 
in its development passes through all the forms 
through which the race has struggled in its 
evolution from stone, through the primordial 
cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and gorilla. 
In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo 
is entirely covered with hair like our beloved 
ancestors, and sometimes development is ar- 
rested at this point and a hairy child is bom 
occasionally with a tail. 

The scientists have discovered in the cell 
body a god more potent than any known deity 
and have named it centrosome. It is a being 
of stellar form, located just above the nucleus 

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or nerve centre of the cell. It is a creator 
whose magic far excels the feats of gods or 
men. It divides one living being into two, 
splitting the brain and the body of the cell in 
halves in such a manner that the two individuals 
produced are the exact duplicates of the parent 
cell in form and character. The cell brain 
matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings 
of very minute granules, termed cromosome, 
which are supposed to contain all the hereditary 
traits. The division of each one of these cromo- 
somes into equal halves gives to the individuals 
produced a similar character. The centrosome 
is one in the beginning, but before dividing 
the cell it divides itself into two persons, so 
that one of the centrosomes may accompany 
each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes 
one half of the brain of the parent cell thus 
divided and draws it to one side of the cell to 
form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then 
the whole body of the cell is divided in the 
centre. — Story of the Living Machine, 100. 
When the centrosome divides the cell, two 
cells are produced capable of reproducing them- 
selves in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says 
that **tinder suitable circumstances the lowest 
animated forms are immortal.'* 

Ovir soul is formed by the combination of 
the sovils of the two germ cells from which the 
embryo originated. We existed in otir parents 
prior to our advent here and in all of our an- 
cestors for 500,000,000 years back, more or less. 
The conscious matter that constitutes me, the 
cromatin, existed in every one of my ancestors 
since we were washed out of the igneous rocks or 
spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London 
says: **I did not begin when I was bom. I 
have been growing, developing through incal- 
culable myriads of milleniioms. All these ex- 

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periences of all these lives and of cotmtless other 
lives have gone to the making of the soul-sttiff 
that is I.*' 

Elephas Levi says: **The millions of germ 
cells that fail to become human beings are trans- 
formed into phantoms or larvae. These larvae 
possess aerial bodies formed from the steam of 
blood For this reason they seek out spilt 
blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke 
of sacrifices. The cohesion of the parts of these 
pliantastic organisms is so feeble that they fear 
a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points 
of swords. They are vampires.'' This accounts 
for the craving of the gods for blood sacrifices. 
The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods 
by the drunken prophets. 

The cells are spheroids and they are men in 
embryo,'* says Plato. **God caused the universe 
to move with a circular motion and created 
original man as a perfect circle. The sexes were 
originally three in number, man, woman and 
hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four 
arms and fotu" legs, but Zeus cut them in two. 
After the division the two parts of man, each 
desiring the other half, came together and threw 
their arms about one another eager to grow into 
one. Each of us when separate is but the inden- 
ture of a man, having one side only like a flat- 
fish, and he is always looking for his other half." 
—Plato, 1-483. 

The intelligence of the cells has been clearly 
established by overwhelming proofs. An egg 
or ovimi is at first a small fertilized cell, and 
in its development or transformation into an 
embryo, it is at first divided into several cells, 
to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the tail cell 
and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his exper- 
iments in embryology, separated these cells, 
removing them from their proper positions, 

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but the cells so removed, traveled about trying 
first one place and then another until they 
usually found their proper positions and there 
joined the body and grew thereon, producing 
a perfect animal. If they made a mistake and 
joined the body in the wrong place, a monster 
was produced. 

Furthermore, a scientist produced a mush- 
room-shaped being by subjecting metalic salts 
to the action of a galvanic current. The parti- 
cles of the metal gathered around the pole of 
the magnet in the shape of a mushroom. This 
thing was a living being, with alimentary canal 
in its stem, through which it drew its nourish- 
ment and added to its growth. It was only 
necessary that a current of life or electricity 
be introduced among the particles to cause 
them to assimie the form of a living organism. 
The metalic tree is produced by the same means. 
A copper wire and a piece of zinc are suspended 
in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and 
the particles of lead gather about the copper 
wire and put forth branches, limbs and foli- 
age. — ^Yogi Ramacharaka. 

Each atom of matter, each molecule and 
every life cell, of which man is composed, has 
a soul of its own. And it is claimed that be- 
side the individual cell souls, man not only has 
a communal soul in his brain, but a soul in his 
Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a 
drop of acid is placed on his body, he will wipe 
it off with his foot. 

The development of animals out of frogs 
and men out of animals was held by Anaxi- 
menes 600 B. C, and the evolution of species 
was an accepted doctrine before the flood. In 
the Hindu books it is written: *'When the world 
had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, ele- 
mentary principles produced the vegetal seed, 

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which animated first the plants, from the plants 
life passed into fantastical bodies which were 
bom in the waters, then through a series of 
forms and various animals it reached man." 
— ^Bhagavata. 

Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the ex- 
istence of a first cause, claiming that everything 
in nature found itself developed only in con- 
sequence of material fatal forces. The ancient 
Kabalists said: **A stone becomes a plant, a 
plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and 
the spirit a god/' 



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CHAPTER XII. 

Magic and Devil Worship. 

Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction 
and repiilsion of the atoms is caused by the 
astral light. ** There exists an agent which is 
material and spiritual, a universal plastic medium, 
a common receptacle of the vibrations of motions 
and the images of forms, a fluid and a force. 
By means of this force all nervous apparatuses 
secretly communicate with each other, thence 
come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams 
and second sight. The existence and use of 
this force is the great secret of practical magic. 
The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and 
destroys all things under the influence of power- 
ful wills. It can be directed by the leaders 
of souls. By means of this agent we can cor- 
respond instantaneously from one end of the 
earth to the other, discern what is taking place 
at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a distance. 
The Gnostics called it the burning body of the 
Holy Ghost. Life is produced by the action 
of the astral light on the ether or matter. In 
man it forms the astral body, it is the first 
envelope of the soul, and it is by combining 
with the most subtil fluids that it forms this 
etherized body or phantom. The astral body 
is nourished by the astral light, as the physical 
body is nourished by the earth. The astral 
light is saturated with souls, which it releases 
in the incessant generation of existences, and 
whose imperfect wills can be dominated and 
emplo3'^ed by stronger ones. The elementary 

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spirits are like children, they torment those 
who concern themselves about them. It is 
these that produce the raps on the walls and 
furniture/' — Mysteries of Magic, 65. 

*'An individual can leave the physical 
body and actually travel on either the material 
or astral plane in the astral body. Many per- 
sons are able to travel thus in their ordinary 
sleep.''— Astral World, 25. 

All magic is religious, having been invented 
by the priests or Magi. It is said that the 
religious bodies copied their demonolog>^ from 
the Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter 
borrowed their system of theurgy and theology 
from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests. 
If any one outside of the religious bodies started 
any opposition devil-worship, they were promptly 
burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from 
the Key of King Solomon, claimed to have been 
foimd in his sepulchre at Jerusalem. 

In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope 
Honorius, he says: "We have seen with what 
power Jesus commanded demons, which power 
was transmitted to St. Peter, and, as the lawful 
successors of St. Peter, having the keys of the 
Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the 
power of invoking and commanding spirits, 
which has been reserv^ed unto us alone, with 
our brethren, we have included in this Bull 
the manner of their invocation. And because 
it is meet that the ministers of the altar should 
have authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby 
depute imto them all the powers which we 
possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair." 
—Book of Black Magic, 100. 

In invoking the DevU or other choice spirits, 
it is necessary to murder some being. If the 
conjurer cannot or dare not murder a htiman 
being, he takes an innocent virgin lamb and 

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cuts its throat and tears off its skin to use for 
a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the 
skin of a lamb, the catil of a new-bom child 
may be used. — Idem. 

The sign manual of the demon Valefor, 
the patron of thieves, contains two Maltese 
crosses rampant and tiiree links. As Solomon 
and his entourage worshipped the demon As- 
taroth, they probably stole from him the two 
pillars at the door of the Temple and the double 
triangle above them, for they appeared in the 
seal of that spirit. There are two or more crosses 
in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon's 
seventy two black fiends. Their motto is, 
*ln this sign we conquer." 

Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils, 
with all their legions, in a brazen vessel and 
sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Baby- 
lonians, thinking that there must be a great 
treasure in the vessel, took it out of the lake 
and broke it open, when out flew the chief 
devils immediately, with all their legions fol- 
lowing them. — See Waiters Book of Black Magic. 

We still worship pagan gods. The Hex- 
agram, or double triangle of Solomon, is still 
used l3y different sects and societies. On it 
is the name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also 
the name of Tau, the Egyptian bull christ Tau- 
rus, with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross. 
The god A. and O., Alpha and Omega, with 
which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul Baby- 
lonian idol, the same as 10. It has been rep- 
resented that the Devil falls prostrate before 
the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses 
the sign himself, also the double triangle and 
the single triangle in his signature. And Belial 
has four crosses by which he lies. 

When a sorcerer conjures up one of the 
seventy two demons, he must draw the double 

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seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pen- 
tagram, (five-pointed star) on a parchment 
of calfskin. These must be worn on his white 
vestment, together with the seal of the spirit 
invoked. And the secret seal of Solomon (the 
pillar standing in a circle) must be drawn with 
the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parch- 
ment. This is part of the conjuration : '*I invoke 
and conjm'e you, O Spirit, by God the Father, 
by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by 
the Most Glorious and Holy Mother of God, 
by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by 
the Power and. Victory of Hell, by the Ministers 
of the Tartarean Seat. I exorcise thee in the 
names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &c. do thou 
forthwith appear. I conjure thee by the Living 
and True God Heliorem (Helios, the sun god) 
and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of 
four letters). Come! 1 Adonai Saday, King of 
Kings, commands thee. See Lesser Key of 
King Solomon, 55. 

There is no. use in trying to invoke spirits 
or perform any tricks in black magic unless 
you have confessed and received the Holy 
Communion, and you must pray for assistance 
to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel, Yahveh 
and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society 
of females for nine days, and take a bath, and 
wear the garb of a priest or a Levite, and you 
must have the sacred Masons' implements, 
the sword, the staff, the rod, the sickle and 
the poniard. See Waiters Book of Black Magic. 

That part of nature called the astral light 
or universal spirit was virtually the supreme 
god of all religions. It was the Heaven or 
Nirvana of the Buddhist, (where the soul is 
blown out like a lamp some believed.) When 
he, attained to, perfection and was reabsorbed 
in this godhead, he had stormed the heights 

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of Heaven and attained eternal bliss. He 
considered that his spirit would no longer be 
subjected to endless incarnations in material 
forms. But there is no knowing when it would 
again by choice or compulsion enter the ether 
and form another atom and again commence 
the imavoidable cycle. 

All the vile rehgions have scared the human 
race into ca^niption fits by their assertion that 
our souls will be lost unless we bow down to 
their priests and worship their idols. According 
to the original parent religion, the Hindu, if 
we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to 
Nirvana and become a creator or electron, 
or elementary spirit. And all the authorities, 
both pagan and Christian, agree that the ele- 
mentary spirits are mischievous, wicked entities. 
It would be better to lose our souls, for in that 
case they are banished into the ether or chaos 
and become the nucleus of a material atom. 
If we go to Nirvana, we are one step farther 
removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambi- 
tions of all the heavenly electrons and material 
atoms, the supreme pinnacle of attainment, 
man*s high estate, which is greater than that 
of the gods. 

The Theosophists revel in the mystic and 
occult. If they can construct a sentence that 
no one can tmderstand, and that they do not 
know the meaning of themselves, they are in 
the seventh heaven of delight, their wisdom 
borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine 
of transmigration in plain language: God sits 
at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of pig- 
eonholes before him, in each one of which is a 
soul in a state of coma. WTien he receives a 
wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie 
McGee have formed in their marital relationship 
a psychic vortex, or sotil vortex, he makes a 

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grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on 
the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the 
new-born embryo, which already has a soul, 
and there is no room for any other. See "Sper- 
matozoa," Stand. Die, and note those very ener- 
getic individuals in a frantic race to enter the 
ovum and blossom out as human beings. You 
will then realize that the child already has a 
very lively soul, provided by nature, and there 
is no occasion for any doped soul, supplied by 
any idiotic htmian plan. 

"The astral light keeps an tmmutilated 
record of all that was, that is, or ever will be. 
The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted 
on it, and even our thoughts rest photographed 
on its eternal tablets. It is the Book of Life, 
it is the memory of God. If the medium or 
subject's sight is ably directed by the mesmer- 
izer, magician or spirit, the light must yield 
up its most secret records to otir scrutiny." — 
Astral World. It is claimed that each person's 
atmosphere in the astral light is peopled with 
the images of his or her immediate family, thus 
accounting for the assertions of the mediums 
that they see the spirits of our lost ones. 

Swedenborgians claimed that the human 
body is sometimes abandoned by the soul in 
consequence of overpowering fright, grief, de- 
spair or sickness, and that we encounter every 
day such living corpses. Into these bodies 
may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some 
earth-bound, disembodied soul. In insanity the 
astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and 
subject to the influence of every passing spirit 
of any sort, or it has departed forever, and the 
body is taken possession of by some vampire 
or htmian soul near its own dissolution, and 
clinging desperately to earth, whose sensiml 

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pleastires it may enjoy for a brief season longer 
by this expedient. 

The ancients claimed that the soul was 
located in the solar plexus, and it was asserted 
that they could read, hear, see and smell through 
the navel. In oiu- vermiform stage of devel- 
opment before evolution had supplied us with 
heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach, 
but it may have moved since. Plato says 
that the divine part of the soul is located in 
the head. Haeckel says that the human soul 
is a combination of the souls of all the cells 
of the body. It is impossible to destroy any 
simple substance, and if it affords you any 
corafort, you can assume that the sovd or ego 
is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed 
that the soul is in the heart, and that although 
it outlives the body, it is yet perishable and 
can only endure at the longest till the termination 
of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epi- 
ctuiis claimed that **nothing that exists will 
ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eterni- 
ty, and worlds were formed by their vortical 
motion. The soul is material and composed 
of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed 
through the whole body. The rational sotil is 
in the breast." Stephanus, of Alexandria, says 
that '^copper is like a man, it has a sovil and 
body.*' Yoga Ramacharaka says that '*iron 
is alive and may be killed by poison." 

''Transmigration of the soul takes place 
in all flesh, in beasts, reptiles and fowls. For 
one form of imcleanness the soul will pass into 
a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others 
into an ass, a woman, a bat, a she-mule or a 
camel." — Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13, 
No. 1. It sometimes happens that one sacrifices 
an animal with a human soul in it. Therefore 
the slaughtering knife must be without defect, 

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and the slaughter must needs be delicately 
done to avoid cutting the gizzard out of the 
human soul. *'The soul of a murderer is trans- 
migrated into water. Let no man drink from 
a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner 
pass into him.'' — Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol. 
153, col.l. 

**By a combination of the letters of the 
ineffable name Rava once created a man and 
sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable 
to reply when spoken to, the Rabbi said to 
him: Thou art a creation of the company (of 
necromancers) return to thy dust.* By the 
same means a Rabbi created pimipkins, melons, 
deers and roes.'* — ^Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhe- 
drim, ch. 7. 

The soul, called Psyche, when she is at 
home, lives in that part of the brain called 
the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called 
Budhi, lives in the next house up the street, 
the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the Word, 
wins the affections of Psyche, and they are 
married, the Word saves the soul, and the man 
who harbors these entities is illimiinated and 
becomes a master. 

If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew, 
you will find that Al or El, the sun, not 
the Christian God, says: **To every beast of 
the earth I gave a living soul.'' The souls of 
human beings are composed of material as 
refined and spiritual as that of the souls of 
cockroaches and bedbugs, and men, if they 
behave themselves, are equally as good as those 
animals and of just as much importance in 
the universe. 



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CHAPTER Xm, 
Ghosts and Hobgoblins. 

The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they 
had ghosts, but they knew them to be bad 
spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear 
at all. Apuleius says the human soul is a 
demon or genius, an immortal god. Accord- 
ing to Philo Judaeus, the air is fUled with an 
invisible host of spirits, the bad ones are mortal, 
and the good ones are immortal. The soul, 
upon the death of the body, transforms into a 
lemure (phantom). If it is wicked, it is called 
a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fear- 
ful crimes and animal passions, are confined to 
the eighth sphere immediately surrounding the 
earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons 
so well known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns, 
monks and witches, the blood demons of Por- 
phery. They may be cast out by powerful 
magicians, but if a sorcerer is not available, 
you can take a saucer containing two otmces of 
nitre and pour over it one oimce of vitrol and 
place it under the bed of the obsessed, and the 
devil will take to his heels. 

Paracelsus says: *'It is possible that my 
spirit, without the aid of the body and through 
a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab 
and wound others. I can also bring the spirit 
of my adversary into an image, and then double 
him up and lame him.*' According to Cotton 
Mather some young girls had become mediums 
by sitting with a West Indian negro woman. 
They declared that the spectres of various 

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witches appeared to them and bit and pinched 
and stuck pins into them. Some of the witch- 
es confessed that they did afflict these girls by 
sticking pins into manikins made of wax or rags, 
and by clutching and pinching their hands to- 
gether and wishing in what part and after what 
manner they would have the girls afflicted, 
and it was done. 

If you are haunted by an objectionable 
ghost, provide yourself with a sword or a dagger 
and stab him when he makes his appearance. 
They are awfully afraid of swords, although if 
you cut one in two, he will join together again, 
or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put 
the member right on again. But he does not 
like it, and will thereafter leave you severely 
alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary, 
thundering demon fell down with the lightning 
into the house of one Poudot and kept throwing 
stones all about the room for several days. The 
magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit 
knocked his hat off and drove him out of the 
house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed 
all around the room, whereupon the spirit dis- 
appeared. 

Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you 
can drive them away by distributing holy me- 
dallions aroimd the house where the ghosts can 
see them. As the medallions have been blessed 
or magnetized, God has been injected into them, 
and they consequently are gods, and mischiev- 
ous spirits who cut up capers around the house 
are afraid of these deities. I have a blessed 
idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts 
out of the office and prevent them from inter- 
fering with the composition of this pious work. 

Modem spirits are often lying spirits. 
They are ever on hand to humor the respective 
hobbies of the persons who communicate with 

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them at circles, and deceive them. When 
Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon, he was 
told that he should not worship the Virgin. 
But when St. Dominic called upon the devils, 
they told him that nobody was damned that 
persevered in her holy worship. The golden 
legend of James de Viragine shows that the Vir- 
gin gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosarv% by 
which he could perform greater miracles than 
Christ. But a certain abandoned sinner was 
bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary, 
and immediately fifteen thousand devils took 
possession of him, and being questioned by St. 
Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils, 
eyes and ears of the demoniac and certified to 
the virtues of the rosary. Over a hundred 
angels appeared in golden armor, together with 
the blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod, 
with which she administered a sound thrashing 
to the demoniac. The numerous theological 
truths uttered by St. Dominic's devils were 
embodied in so many articles of faith, accord- 
ing to Isis Unveiled, 2-76. 

One who is unprotected, the trick>^ powers 
of the air but too often delude with the sem- 
blance of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong 
drink or anaesthetics were administered to the 
initiates to sunder the soul from the body and 
produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches 
that the ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such 
a minute space that it can penetrate anything, 
or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through 
space, or standing on the earth can reach the 
moon, that its will is irresistible, having domin- 
ion over all things and the alDility to attain 
every desire. 

It is claimed that phanton hands have ap- 
peared at seances under test conditions and 
written messages on a table in broad daylight, 

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when the medium was six or eight feet away, 
but the theory is that the materialized hand is 
an emanation from the mediimi, the astral hand 
of the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that 
"this is the spiritual or astral body that is raised 
in incorruption. It is useless to argue that 
these are spirit hands. To make hands or faces 
objective, they are compelled to use either the 
astral limb of the medium, or material furnished 
by the elementals, or the aural emanation of all 
persons present. Pure spirits will not and can- 
not show themselves objectively. Those that 
do are elementary spirits.'' 

Madam Blavatsky tells of the following 
wonderful manifestations that occtirred in Thibet. 
A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed 
the power to reincarnate the Buddha in any in- 
fant. A child four months old was brought to 
their cave and set down in the middle of the 
room, while the monks sat in a circle around it 
at some distance. A skeptic minister sat close 
to the child to expose the trickery. The chief 
Pase Budha went into a trance, and his astral 
and spiritual body took possession of the child 
and made it walk and talk, saying *T am Bud- 
dlia, I am the old Lama, I am his spirit in a new 
body.'' The minister said: *'The baby looked 
at me with an expression of intelligence that 
was simply awfid. It sent a chill through me, 
I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head, 
and my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to 
search my very soul with an expression that 
made me think that it was the face of the Supe- 
rior himself, his eyes, his very look that was 
gazing upon me. 

If you wish to conjtue up or materialize a 
spirit, purchase from the Yogis some ancient 
blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered 
form. This, together with a sparrow's brain, 

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burnt upon the altar will produce a smoke or 
vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown 
and unnamed by htmian beings, being a com- 
bination of many colors. From the smoke of 
this magic altar it is possible for spirits to ma- 
terialize, so that even persons without the astral 
vision can see them. 

Sometimes a band of occultists will meet 
around their altar fire, which is kindled between 
the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient 
blood of a black cat and other material from 
which ghosts can materialize. The occultists 
stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master 
at the head by the altar, and all strongly com- 
mand that a spirit shall manifest. As the com- 
mand passes from one brother to another it 
gains force, and the power of the will is enor- 
mously augmented, and after a time there issues 
from the floor a thread of astral matter, which 
ascends perpendicularly and widens out as 
it ascends, asstmiing a human form, but weak, 
wavering and limp, bending this way and that 
on every breath of air. But after the circle 
has pumped the power into him for a while, he 
becomes sufficiently strong to walk or glide 
about and take a seat in the circle and talk to 
the members. The materialized body is soft 
and moist and cold as a corpse. When they 
wish him to disappear they stand again hand 
in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit, 
and send the command from one to the other 
ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again 
become weak and wabbly and sink down to 
the floor and disappear through the same nail 
hole from which he emerged. 

If the company wishes to engage in a dan- 
gerous experiment, one half of them will occupy 
one side of the hall and the other half the other 
side. They must first erect between them a 

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circle of sheet lead, over which the devil cannot 
jtimp to attack any of the members. Then 
each bunch will think evil vindictive and mur- 
derous thoughts of the other bunch, and conjure 
up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a 
horrible, gigantic and vicious thought-monster, 
part beast, part devil and part human, will 
materialize and rush at the members and en- 
deavor to attack them, but fortunately for 
them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if 
he could reach those that made him, he would 
strike them dead with a charge of electricity 
through the heart. In order to lay this devil 
they have conjured up, they have to clothe 
themselves entirely in silver-colored garments. 
They then enter the circle from both sides and 
close in on the monster. These silver-colored 
beings scare the devil to death, and he crawls 
back in his hole. 

A man, named B, built a house with second- 
hand Itmiber from an old building that had 
been torn down. The old building was reputed 
to be haunted by the former owner, who was 
miu-dered there. The ghost was very mad 
because B took his lumber, and, in order to be 
revenged, he went with the lumber to the new 
house and haunted that. B says that the ghost 
would appear to him when he was going to sleep 
and jab him in the eye with his finger and seize 
his arm and hurl it against the wall. When 
B was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared 
with a pail of water and threw it all over him. 
The dog could see the ghost even when B could 
not, and would bark and show his teeth and 
propose to fight the phantom. B sold the 
house to some colored folks. They were scared 
white by the skilligin, gave up the property 
and demanded their money back, because the 
ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and 

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a legal defect in title, he being in possession, 
claiming ownership. 

St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon 
Magus (Paul), of the New Testament, could 
make himself invisible when and to whom he 
pleased. He created a man out of air, who 
passed through the rocks and mountains and 
flew along through the air. He threw himself 
from precipices without being injured and 
flung himself into the fire without being burned, 
he animated statues, he walked through the 
streets attended by strange figures, which he 
said were the souls of people departed. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

Witches and Sorcerers. 

"Bum everybody/' the Inquisition seemed 
to say, **God can easily sort out his own/' Poor 
fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted 
alive for the crime of magic. 

Catherine de Medicis, the author of the 
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had in her service 
an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient 
in the black art. King Charles lay dangerously 
ill, and Catherine, the queen mother, had every- 
thing to lose by the death of the King. In her 
anxiety she commanded the priest to inquire 
of the Devil what should be done to save the 
life of the King. The priest, taking with him 
a beautiful chUd, went into the chapel and 
after administering to the child its first com- 
munion, decapitated it on the very steps of the 
altar and placed the palpitating head upon the 
paten. Then, standing on a reversed cross, 
he celebrated the DevH's Mass before an image 
of the Demon, and commanded the Devil to 
answer by the lips of this murdered child the 
question of the Queen. Then a strange voice, 
which had nothing htmian about it, made itself 
audible in this poor little martyr's head. But 
the sorcery availed nothing, the King died. — 
Elephas Levi. 

*Tope Sylvester was publicly accused by 
Cardinal Benno with being a sorcerer and 
enchanter. The brazen oracular head made 
by his Holiness was of the same kind as the one 
fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The latter 

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was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas, 
not because it was the work of or inhabited by 
a demon, but because the spook, that was 
fixed inside by mesmeric power, talked inces- 
santly and disturbed the eloquent saint. These 
heads and other talking statues, trophies of 
the magical skill of monks and bishops, were 
fac-simSes of the animated gods of the ancient 
temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope 
was constantly attended by demons or spirits. 
Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII Greg- 
ory were all known as magicians. The latter 
Pope, it was said, could shake lightning out 
of his sleeve. In the latter part of the six- 
teenth century there was hardly a parish to be 
found in which the priests did not study magic 
and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Refor- 
mation and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist 
and occultist. The occult knowledge gleaned 
by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was 
sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent 
to the stake only those practitioners who poached 
on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in 
the single province of Lorraine, the President 
Remigius biu*ned nine hundred witches.'* — Isis 
Unveiled, 2-57. 

**The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition 
is represented as waving in the Heavenly breezes 
at the foot of the Great White Throne of the 
Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the 
cross, the symbol of the Son of God who died 
for mankind, with an olive branch on one side 
and a sword stained to the hilt with human gore 
on the other." 

"The true origin of the daily accusations 
and death sentences for witchcraft are traced by 
Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal, political 
and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John 
George II, of Bamberg, caused six hundred 

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to be burned for sorcery in five years. The 
petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon 
any pretence to fill their coffers, the persons most 
pei^ecuted being those whose property was a 
matter of consideration.'* — Sorcery and Magic, 
2-185. A horse was burnt at the stake in Lisbon 
in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could tell the 
number of spots on a card. 

In the list of twenty nine btutiings, or 
autos da fe, in nineteen months in Germany, 
162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were 
Protestants, 100 wealthy citizens and 34 little 
children, the youngest an infant. Wright says 
that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of 
age, were burnt as witches. Lorente, the historian 
of the Inquisition, computes that Torquamada 
in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220 
persons, and otherwise punished 97,321. In 
Andalusia alone, in a single year, the Inquisition 
sent to the stake 2000 Jews. — Buckle's Hist. 
Civ. 1-136. **We learn that much money was 
realized by selling to the rich dispensations to 
secure them from the Inquisition." — Conflict 
Between Religion and Science, 146. 

Stevens says: **A monk of St. Anthony, 
having been at Jerusalem, brought home with 
him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the 
snoot of a seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub, 
one of the ribs of the Word Made Flesh, some 
rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St. 
MichaePs sweat. Henry III, of England, 
received from the Grand Master of the Templars 
a vial containing some of the blood that Christ 
shed upon the cross, attested by the seal of the 
Patriarch of Jerusalem." 

The hand of one of the innocents massacred 
by Herod, although Herod died foiu* years B. 
C, was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent 
at Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the 

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bodies of the infants were thrown, and also the 
manger which came down from the constellation 
of the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped 
the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter 
denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be 
in a church in Rome. In the Church of the 
Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, among other 
wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of 
Adam, who never existed, and there is a polished 
marble bathtub or sarcophagus, which they 
claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock. 
See Travels in Holy Land, 2-163. 

The fight of the fools and fakirs over the 
location of the grave of a mythical sun-god is 
certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the 
magic trick of the early Christians who stole 
the grave of Adam either from Hebron or Mecca 
and also swiped the grave of Christ from the 
Damascus Road, north of Jerusalem, and ex- 
hibited both, with other shell and three-card- 
monte games, in the Church of the Holy Sep- 
ulchre, in the centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose 
of annexing the coin of the dupes, farmers and 
come-ons from all over the world. 

According to Tichenor, over three hundred 
years after the crucifixion, St. Helena found the 
true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the 
two thieves, and this lumber was sold for cen- 
turies to millions of the faithful. Even a splin- 
ter will save you from Hell and cure you of what 
ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the 
Apostles have been sold all over the world. 
You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St. 
Peter's fingers and toes if you had the necessary 
dough. The people not only worshipped the 
Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the 
Grandmother of God. God came unto Marv- 
in the form of Gabriel, and to prove it the monk 
Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather 

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from Gabriers wing, which he shed at the con- 
ference. Thorns, from the crown of thorns, 
the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle, 
and the milk of the Holy Virgin were peddled 
out all over the world for centuries. — See Tich- 
enor's Roman Religion. 



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CHAPTER XV. 
The Great King Solomon. 

Solomon's Song is very choice reading and 
wotild be eminently appropriate to the foulest 
book on earth, the circulation of which would be 
a criminal offense imder the law. The Chris- 
tian compilers of the Bible have asserted in the 
headings of the Song that it represents the love 
of Christ and the Church. They were not only 
wilful liars, but foully besmirched their own 
church, for that was about 1200 years before 
their church existed. The whole context shows 
that it has nothing to do with the Christian 
Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the 
church of Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a 
deacon. Any institution that foists upon the 
world such vile obscenity as the inspired word 
of God, is the Temple of the Devil, the ante- 
chamber of Hell, an annex of the Witches' 
Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the 
face of the earth. In fact, the die is already 
cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand 
of death is on it now. 

Solomon was Grand Master of the secret 
societies. Those things that were esoteric or 
secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed 
by the priests to be too sacred for the people, 
were either criminal or too vile to utter. That 
was the only reason for keeping them secret. 

Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah 
out of the throne to which the latter was en- 
titled by birth, and Adonijah thought that he 
should at least be allowed to have Abishag, the 

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sixteen-year-old beauty that they had put in 
bed with the dying King David to save his life. 
And he induced Bathsheba, the mother of 
Solomon, to make the request of the king. 
When Solomon had heard the petition of Bath- 
sheba he said: **And why dost thou ask Abi- 
shag for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.'* 
Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown, 
the most priceless legacy that King David left. 
A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the 
riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up. 
All the good things in Israel are reserved for the 
king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord say- 
ing: **God do so to me and more also if Adon- 
ijah hath not spoken this word against his own 
life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adon- 
ijah shall be put to death this day.'* What ho! 
guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of the 
Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah. 

When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low be- 
fore the throne, and, raising his right hand, 
made the occult sign of the Witches' Sabbath. 
Then Solomon said: **Rise, O beloved of the 
king, favorite of the gods of the groves and the 
gardens. The king hath weighty matters to 
communicate to thee. It is reported that 
Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the 
shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and 
doth cling to the horns of the altar. And be- 
hold all of Adonijah 's followers are devotees of 
Jehovah, while aU of our partisans and all of 
you whom the king hath deigned to grace with 
official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah. 
Now the king commandeth that you seek out 
all of those Jehovah worshippers who have 
stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the 
problem of life. Go in and out among them and 
slay each one yotu* father and yotu" mother, 
your sister and your brother, if so be that they 

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be among the rebels. Relieve them of life's 
btirdens. Do not be harsh with them, show 
them our royal mercy, shove them gently 
through the gates of Hell, cutting them with 
saws and with harrows of iron and with axes, 
emulating the clemency of our royal father, the 
bandit chief. As for Adonijah, fall upon him 
and slay him as he clings to the horns of the 
altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred 
ground and a refuge as a general proposition, 
but general propositions do not apply to the 
king, the king is above the law. What do I 
care for these imaginary gods, they are all right 
to scare children with, but they cut no ice with 
your Solomon. 

Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great 
throne of ivory and gold, flanked by the twelve 
brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of 
the Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling re- 
galia guarded the beloved of the Lord. Around 
the throne, with naked swords and the three 
hundred golden shields, stood the Princes of the 
Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the setting sun, 
reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and 
gold, bathed in dazzUng light the royal pano- 
pHes of blue and purple and crimson. 

And King Solomon's sacred, hermaphrodite 
Billygoat, in trappings of purple and gold, 
wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on 
his tail, stood beside the golden throne with his 
revered back to the audience in accordance with 
the law in such case made and provided. And 
he informed the King in no uncertain words 
that he did not propose to be the goat any long- 
er, that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of 
Asherah, that had been assigned as priests to 
serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up all 
the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented 
him from getting as full as a goat, as required 

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by the tenets of his religion. And further, 
they did not give him exercise enough, they 
called him Baphomet and Devil and other hard 
names and took him up out of the pit for a walk 
around the town only once a month, at dead 
of night, in the dark of the moon, when Hell 
yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon 
the conclusion of this divine oration, the whole 
audience crawled on their hands and knees up 
the steps of the golden throne and devoutly 
kissed the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the 
male and female emblems on the Pax. 

This pious ceremony being completed, the 
Great King, raising the royal sceptre, summoned 
to his exalted presence the Commander of 
the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah 
and said: ** While you, Benaiah, my faithful 
servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved 
brother, I will hie me to my devotions, for I 
can see that at the mystic shrine on yonder 
hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me. 
My adored, my most beautiful, my ravishing 
one stands in the open door of the pagoda, the 
beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pris- 
tine loveliness, a beauty unadorned, young and 
plump and enchanting. See that innocent radi-- 
ant face beaming with loving kindness, perfect 
in every feature, see that form divine, of which 
the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my 
favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine 
Asherah, and she is calling me to prayer. See 
her beckoning me over with that sweet hand, 
that angel hand that holds me, the King of the 
Earth and Sea, a willing slave in its gentle grasp. 
She says the door is open wide, and all who will 
may enter in, and no one is denied. 

Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he 
clung to the horns of the altar, Solomon and his 
court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and 

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fine linen and blazing with jewels rare and gold to 
bum, marched in one grand pageant from the 
house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden 
Gate, to the high place of Asherah. 'V\Tien they 
reached the oval, foliated door between the two 
great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden 
dome of Asher, supported by the circle of mono- 
liths or twelve zodiacal redeemers, they bowed 
low before the open portal and crossed them- 
selves, and by thus drawing upon their bodies 
the male symbol, they became themselves male 
emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy 
offering to a female divinity. 

The dazzling beauty who stood in the door 
of the pagoda then ran and threw herself into 
the arms of the king. He folded her pink and 
white form to his royal breast and impressed 
upon her ruby lips a long and loving caress, say- 
ing: **My divine one, my goddess, my life, my 
all, God is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the 
only angel e'er worshipped by Solomon the 
Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like 
the sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the 
royal gardens of Judea. Thine eyes are fathom- 
less wells of priceless love, at which I drink till 
my soul is drunk and reels in its maddened de- 
lirium. Thy flesh is like the lilies of the valley, 
pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true, 
white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the col- 
umn of Baal, indeed so tempting and plump 
and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant 
neck I fain would bite the name of the King of 
the Earth and the Sea. 

** Solomon offered one thousand biunt of- 
ferings in the great high place of Gibeon,'' a 
brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and 
the grove. — 1 Kings: 3-4. **And they set them 
up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill 
and under every green tree.'* — 2 Kings, 17-10. 

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'* Solomon loved the Lord, and the Lord loved 
Solomon.*' They formed a mutual admiration 
society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon: 
•*Ask what I shall give thee/' And ''Solomon 
built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount 
of Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to 
Ashtoreth,*' now replaced by the Church of the 
Ascension, erected over the footprint made by 
Christ in the rock when he jumped from the 
earth to Alcyone. The Bible says that Ash- 
toreth was the abomination of the Sidonians, but 
it happens that Asher, one of the aliases of the 
Hebrew god, was the husband of Ashtoreth. 

The secret and mysterious name of the 
supreme God of the Hebrews, the Ancient of 
Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronotmced in three 
breaths, with hand to ear and the name at low 
breath. This is the name that was engraved 
on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he 
conjured up demons from the abyss, for he 
was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great 
name and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became 
Lord of the Demons, and Beelzebub, at the 
mighty summons, would bob up serenely and 
obey the behests of the king. Solomon soared 
into the celestial altitudes and mastered the 
Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent 
words which constitute all the power of God 
over the demons. He penetrated into the 
remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he boimd 
and forced them to obey him by the power of 
his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solo- 
mon the true composition of, with directions 
for making the dreadful blasting rod which 
causes the spirits to tremble, and which was 
used by God in driving Adam and Eve out of 
the Garden, and which he also used in casting 
the devils out of Heaven. — Book of Black Magic, 
83. 

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, . Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a 
great mason, colaborated with Solomon, Hiram 
of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple. 
He was the one who fashioned the stones with- 
out the sound of hammer by means of an insect 
he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses 
used in cutting the precious stones of the Ephod. 
The spirits evoked by Solomon said that Ash- 
medai had the Shameer, and they gave him the 
location of Ashmedai^s water-hole in the mount- 
ains, where he went to drink. Benaiah then 
went out and filled the water-hole with liquor 
and laid in wait near by. The demon came and 
drank the liquor, and when he was drunk, Be- 
naiah boimd him with a ring and a chain, on 
which was the name of God, so that he could 
not break it. Thus Solomon captured the 
demon and compelled him to call up Shameer, 
the insect stone-cutter, and prepare all the 
stones of the Temple. — Talmud Gittin, fol. 68, 
col. 1. ^ 

This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal 
pals, assisted by the masonic bug, in laying the 
foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer 
of wood and cut his throat and caught the blood 
in a vessel. After sprinkling the comer stone 
with the blood, they placed the vessel of human 
gore inside the stone and buried the body of the 
human sacrifice beneath it, that his spirit might 
guard the Temple and preserve it as long as 
grass grows and water runs. Then they danced 
around the stone the Dance of Death, or the 
dance of the Maccabees. 

King Solomon's Signal of Distress. 

One day King Solomon, being bored about 
to death, and finding that all was vanity and 
vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus, 
high priest of Baal, something as follows: 

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Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000. 
To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal, 
beloved of the Lord and the Devil, Grand 
High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish, 
Beloved Minister of the Holy of Holies, the 
sacred Grove of Asherah. 

Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord 
of the Earth and the Sea, Patron of God Al- 
mighty, Imperial Potentate of the Imperial 
Divan of Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck 
and Past Grand Master of the Phallic Cult. 
Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent 
that he hasn't a thing in the way of nice girls, 
only but just a thousand old hens that were 
passe' in three days after their respective in- 
auspicious arrivals, and the heart of the Great 
King doth yearn for a vision of youth and beauty 
from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou 
wouldst save the King's life, get a move on and 
corral a fair virgin, with golden hair and eyes of 
blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King 
tired. The King recommendeth thee to bring 
the fair one to the back door of the palace, at 
the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the 
thousand old hens have two thousand eyes, and 
each eye is jealous of yoiu* unhappy Solomon. 
Verily, they are determined that we shall not 
have a thing that is fresh and fair to look upon. 
They are a lot of old cats, and we pray thee to 
promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and 
announce to the multitude that seven hundred 
back-number princesses and three hundred fat 
old concubines have been devoted, and will 
be passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal, 
and will be basted and roasted to a turn and 
served to the people with the gravy oozing 
out. May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashto- 
reth, Chemoth and Baal be with thee and thine. 
Yours fraternally, SOLOMON. 

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One night King Solomon, together with his 
two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff , 
went a-htmting in Jerusalem, which at that 
period was a noted sporting resort, abounding in 
all kinds of game. At length they caught a coon 
near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher, 
where were worshipped the images of the male, 
and took her to the king's palace. She says 
(Sol. Song, 1-4): *The King hath brought me 
into his chambers.'' Having reached the King's 
apartments, Solomon said to Hiram of Tyre: 
**Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck? 
Thou wilt find the can behind the throne. And 
thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out in 
the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a 
season and half a season, while I pass the salve to 
this colored lady?" 

Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says: 
**Behold thou art fair my love, thou hast dove's 
eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Leb- 
anon that looketh toward Damascus, and the 
beautiful himip in the centre thereof is like 
unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this 
way and that." And the buxom nigger wench, 
pouting her ruby, liver lips, replies: **Kiss me 
with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is 
better than wine. Because of the savor of thy 
good ointments, which counteract the Jewish 
odor diligently collected since thy last annual 
bath, therefore do the virgins love thee. I am 
black, but comely. I am not a nigger, but only 
tanned. They made me the keeper of vine- 
yards, (deleted by the censor). Place thy left 
hand beneath my head, and thy right hand shall 
embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My be- 
loved is mine, and I am his, a bundle of m\Trh 
is my well-beloved unto me." 

Dtuing the tate-a-tate, the captivating 
beauty was absent-mindedly picking the Tower 

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of Lebanon, when Solomon said: **Knowest 
thou not that our laws prohibit the touching of 
the unwashed fingers to the nose, mouth or eyes. 
The Talmud says: The evil spirit Bath 
Chorin rests upon the hands at night and will 
not depart until water is poured upon him three 
times over.' That fairy tale is for the ignorant 
rabble. You and I have the gnosis. Some of 
the prophets say that the worship of Asherah, 
in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who 
fashioned the first Grove among us? Ask chem 
that. In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham 
formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he prac- 
ticed all kinds of abominations. He gave to his 
seventeen children by Katurah charms by which 
they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts 
of miracles in the black art. 

When King Hiram returned with the booze, 
anticipating a jolly orgy with the wise one, he 
pounded loudly on the door of the King's cham- 
ber. Solomon, being busy, petulantly said: 
''Get thee hence Hiram, or I will have the cop 
run thee in.'* Then King Hiram was exceeding 
wroth, and threatened to make war on Solomon 
and come up to Jerusalem with one hundred 
thousand warriors and take the fair colored 
charmer away from the seductive Jewish King. 
Then Solomon replied: *' Chase thyself back, 
Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that 
great pillar, which, with much pomp and cere- 
mony, thou hast recently erected there, and 
which thou dost salute with the holy kiss every 
morning at sunrise." 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

The Mystic Societies. 

Pope Pius IX was accused of saying : *'Damn 
the clandestine societies." Oh, My! such 
shocking language, and so unjust too, for these 
quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches, 
were anciently faithful devotees of, and expert 
manipulators of the mystic symbols. 

Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts: 
**God was the first Grand Master and Adam the 
second/' And Adam initiated Eve into the 
profound and archaic mystery of the square and 
the eye. 

It may be interesting to know what they 
did at the Witches' Sabbath and the meetings 
of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered 
their christ, that is what they did, and the 
Christians have always charged that they of- 
fered up human sacrifices. I should judge 
from the ritual of the Masons that it originated 
in the sacrifice of a human being, that in ancient 
times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic 
societies, from some of which, perhaps, Ma- 
sonry descended. Here are extracts from an 
old ritual as near as the author can decipher 
them, not guaranteeing that they are correct: 

Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices. 

Sen. War.: '^Brother, the lambskin in all ages 
has been considered an emblem of purity.'* This 
lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is 
worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The fe- 
male emblem, the Eye, is stamped upon it for the 

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same occult reasons. The mystic societies, sun- 
worshippers and Jews were anciently devotees of 
the lamb as well as the cow. They sacrificed him 
and adorned themselves with his skin as a saving 
rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus. 
You remember that Saul sent David out to gath- 
er one hundred Philistine mementos to put in the 
Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the 
lambskin are of equal efficacy, both being relics of 
the crucifixion. 

When Christ came in the sign of Capricorn, 
he came as the goat. At the celebration of 
Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat 
Christ. Two young men are chosen, and the dag- 
ger, or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the Living God, 
is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they 
cut the goatskin into thongs and run about lash- 
ing all they meet. *'The young wives like to be 
lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.*' 
'*The Jews in Jereboam*s time had priests for 
the service of their divinities, the sacred billy- 
goats.'' — Plutarch, 1-78. The religious sorcerers, 
who sought to invoke demons, formed their magic 
circle with strips of goatskin nailed to the ground 
with four nails from the coffin of a dead child. As 
the circle was made of the skin of christ, the 
demons dare not pass it to attack the sorcerer. 
This is the circle of the Kabalists, of which King 
Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and 
Exalted Phalatz. 

In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the 
method of raising the Devil was by sacrificing 
a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The 
eyes, tongue and heart are torn out and burnt 
to ashes. These are religious symbols and 
objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sac- 
rifices a lamb, and places the ashes of the eye, 
the tongue and the heart on the lambskin. 
He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the 

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signs thereon, may save hini from the wiles of 
the demons, that they may be terrified by the 
sight of these figtwes. This, I think, is the 
origin of the figures on the Mason's lambskin. 
This ritual provided that the eye, the cross 
and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin. 

In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual, 
when the candidate has stuck the heel of his 
right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a 
sacred mystic rite that will save your immortal 
soul from Hell, the Sen. War. says: **You will 
now show the Worshipful Master the Degree 
Gag (?) and sign of an Entered Apprentice, 
and when you step forward, place the heel of 
your left foot in the hollow of the right. You 
will now advance with me to the altar. You 
are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form. 
You will now bare your left foot and side and 
your breast expose. You now receive the 
mark of the square on the breast. The Tau 
Cross, a symbol of identical significance with 
the square, was used in the Bacchic and Eleu- 
sinian Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast 
of the initiate to cause him to be bom again. 
The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol wor- 
shipped by the savages in the temples of darkest 
Africa, and which is also worshipped in the 
Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba father, 
papa and pope all have the same meaning. See 
"Kaaba" Stand. Die. 

In the initiation the candidate was allowed 
to play that he was Hiram Abiff. He was 
conducted around the circle of the zodiac from 
one door of the Temple to another and en- 
countered three of the beasts of the four cardinal 
points, that is, the gentlemen who played the 
parts of the beasts in the heavenly drama. 

First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the 
sign of a Master Mason. 

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Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot 
be given except in the presence of three, Solomon, 
King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &c. 

Master: For the second time I demand of 
you the sign of a Master Mason. 

Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that. 

Master: Hiram, for the third and last 
time I demand of you the sign of a Master 
Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life. 

Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but 
the candidate can have this, and he hits him 
on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play, 
as near as I can make out.) 

At the Second Right, the Master makes 
the same demands. 

Sen. Dea. : You shall not have that. Blow 
with the square (on the head of the candidate, 
I presimie, but as he is still alive, he is conducted 
to the beast at the third door. 

Third Right: The Master repeats the 
same demands. 

Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is 
about to kill the sun-christ in the west) you 
shall not have that. 

Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow 
with gavel on forehead, (and the candidate or 
human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.) 

Second Right: We have slain our Grand 
Master Hiram. 

Third Right: What shall we do with the 

bod}^? Let us carry it a due West 

course from the Temple (because the crucified 
sun is buried in the west) and bury it in a grave 
sunk due East and West. 

Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the 
commotion? 

Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is 
assassinated. 

Master: How was he assassinated? 

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Sen. War, : By the Brothers at the door of 
the Temple. 

Master: Oiir Grand Master Hiram may- 
be ill. You will cause search to be made for him 
in the secret antichambers of the Temple and 
see if he can be found. 

Sen. War.: Search has been made, Wor- 
shipful, and he cannot be fotmd. 

According to the Egyptian religion Souphis 
Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of the Underworld, 
murdered the Great Architect. The victim, 
whether he be called the Great Architect, or 
Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is always 
and ever the setting sun murdered by the dark- 
ness, or Prince of Darkness, called Sat in Egypt 
and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram 
Abiff is one form of the Passion Play. 

A Masonic society, established in China 
from the earliest times, is called Our Ladyship's 
Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In 
the Chinese society the candidate is made to 
pass through the arch of swords. He could not 
be bom again or come forth into the light un- 
less he passed through the door of life and came 
out of the cave. The Chinese god Fo was bom 
of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as 
shown in Christian pictures of Mary. In the 
Indian Mysteries three hierophants sit in the 
East and the West and the South. After an 
invocation to the sun, the candidate is bap- 
tized, his shoes taken away from him, and he 
is made to circumnavigate the cavern three 
times with the sun. He is conducted through 
seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of 
hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called 
Siva, and the lamentations of Maya for the 
death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary 
at the tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed 
at the throat of the candidate by the Evil One, 

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but he was brought forth at last into the light. 
The E3^e was marked on his forehead and the 
Tau Cross on his breast. He was presented 
with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical 
stone and the talismanic jewel for the breast. 
— Isis Unveiled. 

In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male em- 
blem is handed to the initiate, and those initi- 
ated bring a piece of money to her as her hire. 
Demeter, of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identi- 
cal with Mary, and Clement says that he knows 
not whether she is the mother or wife of the god 
Zeus or Deus. This god is a serpent. The 
token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this serpent 
god gliding over the himian breast. The off- 
spring of the rape of Proserpine (Mary) by this 
god was Christ, the bull. — Clement 1-29. If 
you wish to know what foul things were kept in 
the Ark of the Covenant, see Clement 1-31. 

According to the Egyptian Book of the 
Dead, in the judgment in Amenti, or the Lower 
World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is 
given the name of Osiris, and he is tried before 
the supreme god Osiris and forty other deities 
or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme 
god on which is placed the bribes offered by the 
soul to god. The forty-two deities are the 
judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the 
Devourer of Shades, another the Cracker of 
Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts. If the 
soul denies that he has committed the forty-two 
sins, the judges must acquit him, but if he is 
convicted of being a land-grabber, he cannot 
get by, as the priests propose to attend to all 
that business themselves. In the Christian 
Judgment, the judges will be the confessors, 
monks and virgins. — ^The Elucidarium. 

"The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons, 
is forced to bear his shoulder and breast and 

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gjive up his money and bare his feet, in fact to 
simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and 
obedience of the Buddhist/* — ^Buddha & Early 
Buddhism, 136. 

In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the 
Great Physician, and at his appearance the sick 
are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He 
cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism. 
Akasa, the mesmeric fluid or the astral light, 
and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Bud- 
dha was bom of a virgin, presented in the Temple, 
disputed with the doctors, was tempted in the 
wilderness, passed his life in preaching and 
working miracles, and descended into Hell and 
ascended into Heaven. — Idem, 80. 

Heaven was also calmly purloined from 
Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is the city 
four square of John, with the gates of gold and 
silver, adorned with precious stones. The great 
throne of God stands in the centre thereof by the 
gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree 
of Life or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion 
is wholly phallic. See Book of All Religions, 86. 

If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency. 
Brit, you will find that it is almost identical 
with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store 
you can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ, 
is the god of life, bringing us life and life yet 
more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for a 
miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on 
his di^dne and radiant forehead is the Eye, and 
on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is the 
sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should 
not be disclosed to the uninitiated, but, to tell 
the truth, I am convinced that this is the origin 
of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and 
revered by all the great and good men from the 
time our religion found its birth in the foul sties 
of India down to the immortal Washington. 

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CHAPTER XVII. 
Revelations. 

If you do not believe that all the beasts of 
the zodiac bear rule in Heaven, read Revelations 
with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand 
Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before 
and behind, and the Lion and the Man, the 
Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four 
cardinal points of the zodiac. 

Ch. 1, v 7, says: **Behold he cometh with 
clouds.'* It is evident from Revelations that 
Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at 
the end of each cycle, and the seven were one, 
and. that one was the sun in the heavens. Bud- 
hi means the Word, one of our beloved idols. 
*T am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last," 
that is, he is the same God that came at first as 
Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed 
that the Revelations were stolen and the 
original was written before the Fish God came. 
In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle- 
sticks, typifying the seven christs or lights of 
the world, "and one of the seven was like unto 
the Son of Man.*' The Persian fire god Agni is 
called the Son of Man, and it is claimed that 
John got the Revelations from the Persians. 
In the Clementines St. Clement says: **Christ, 
it is said, has changed his forms and names from 
the beginning of the world.'* — Clement, cap. 51. 

Verse 18 says: *T am he that liveth and 
was dead,* 'that is, the sun that was crucified 
annually at the winter solstice, when it stood 
still for three days, or remained in the tomb 

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three days, and was reborn on the 25th of 
December. *'And have the keys of death and 
Hell." The christ that was crucified in the 
west, according to the Egyptian reHgion, was 
Judge of the Underworld and carried the keys 
and descended into Hell when the sun went 
down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven, 
that were transmitted to St. Peter. 

Ch. 2, V 7 says: **To him that ove-f-cometh 
will I give to eat of the tree of life," which 
being interpreted means that the successful can- 
didate or worthy brother will be permitted to 
eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says: *'To 
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
hidden manna," which is a small round cake or 
wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing 
the female emblem. In these Mysteries they 
killed a lamb or bull christ and sprinkled the 
candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood 
of Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our 
beastial ignorance, superstition and depravity. 

**And wiU give him a white stone, and in 
the stone a new name written, the Word, which 
no man knoweth save him that receiveth it." 
This stone is the symbol of Siva, and the new 
name is Ling, the secret, the Sanscrit name of 
the Word. St. Clemens says: **It is difficult 
to exhibit the pure and transparent Word to 
swinish hearers. (All are swine except the 
priests and ministers.) For nothing they could 
hear would be more ludicrous to the midtitude. 
The truly sacred Word is deposited in the 
shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these 
emblems should be exposed to those who have 
never been purified in soul. The Mysteries 
were estabHshed because it was wise that the 
holy and blessed contemplation of realities 
be concealed." 

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In Ch. 4, V 3, the four beasts and the 
four and twenty elders, the angels and saints 
and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and 
knock their foreheads on the ground, groveling 
in abject baseness, servility and degradation before 
the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the throne 
in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the 
beast, (the bull) . This lovely pillar is worshipped 
throughout India. You will find the above 
scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman's A. 
P. & M. C. Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has 
set a foul pagan idol on the throne of Heaven. 

Ch. 12, V 1. The woman clothed with the 
sun and the moon under her feet, with a crown of 
twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife 
of the sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are 
the twelve christs that she bore, or that crowned 
her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The 
dragon that waited to devour the child is called 
Herod in the other story of Mary and Jesus. In 
the Hindu myth, from which this is copied,the wo- 
man fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt. 
According to another astronomical legend, when 
the sun-god is bom on the 25th of December, old 
King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives 
in the next house (November), tries to kill the Son 
of God with the arrow of death. 

If you refer to an astronomical chart, j^ou 
will see depicted there all the gods that ever ex- 
isted. In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the 
Tribe of Judah,the christ that came in the Golden 
Age, 12,934 years ago, a Jew god, that would not 
do a thing to you but rend you and steal your 
shirt. 

In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or 
Castor and Pollux, or Cain and Abel, or Romulus 
and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob 
and Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with 
which he kills his brother god, as Romulus killed 

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Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the 
sign of Tatirus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic 
of high degree kissing the goat, and Orion, 
the Lord of Darkness, killing the bvdl christ. 
And there is the triangle of seven stars that 
Christ Jheld in his hand. This is the solar system 
of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is 
the sun, and around which the whole universe re- 
volves. It is the Kingdom of Heaven and the 
home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil. 

In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God 
and the christ Perseus, who has just amputated 
the Medusa's head and destroyed the serpents of 
which the hair was composed. In the next sign of 
Pisces is the beautiful Andromeda (mother of men) , 
or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of Man, 
under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In 
the sign of Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus 
overcoming the Great Serpent. And another 
christ, Jlercules by name, Jiolds a club in one 
hand and two serpents in the other, to whom, as 
representing the Devil or the infernal god Cer- 
berus, he is about to administer, in the classic 
language of modern ministers, a good wallop. 

**When the sim shall have passed through the 
sign of Virgo, the Great Cycle of 25,868 years 
will be ended. The sun then enters the sign 
of Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this 
secret of the Great Cycle, is expressed in the 
Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion con- 
joined. This is the mystery of the ages, the 
pillar on the border of Egypt, which shall be 
for a sign and a testimony.''- — Daughter of the 
Druids, 276. It is said that in that great Day 
Draconis will again be the pole star, and the great 
pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the 
Great Year the light from Draconis will again 
shine through the passage in the pyramid that 

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leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be 
cast into the Bottomless Pit. 

In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the 
mother of all the gods, and the Great Serpent 
will be seen waiting there for her to deliver 
another god for his consimiption. Ch. 5, v 1, 
says that the book was sealed with seven seals, 
corresponding with the seven comings or avatars 
of Christ, when the book was opened or the word 
was preached. When the first seal was opened, 
Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer. 
**And behold a white horse and he that sat on 
him had a bow/' When he had opened the 
third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat 
thereon had a pair of balances in his hand. This 
is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra or the 
Scales, who weighed them in the balance and 
found them wanting. 

Ch. 4, V 6. The foiu* beasts referred to are 
the four hieroglyphic beasts of the priests and 
magicians, which they placed on the playing 
cards of Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the 
eagle. They are zodiacal gods and sit in the 
North, the East, the South and the West respect- 
ively. The churches declare truly that a pack of 
cards is the Devil's book. Cards were invented by 
the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occtilt 
and religious emblems. The pack is composed of 
four sets of ten. Ten is a Kabalistic sacred 
number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew 
Godhead, and 10 or 10 is the name of God. Then 
there are the four beasts or aces, and the Trinity 
is represented by the king, queen, and jack. The 
clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the 
symbol of the male god and the Trinity. Any 
deeper meaning can only be disclosed to the initi- 
ated. The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of 
Isis, the symbol of love. The queen of hearts is 
clothed with the sun and moon, and she is Mary, 

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the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds 
in her left hand the sacred candle, and she is 
adorned with another male emblem, the fleur de 
lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a 
female emblem, the same as the circles and 
rosaries with which she is also decorated. The 
seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys 
that Mary had. The twelve precious stones in 
the jewel on her breast correspond with the twelve 
christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the 
Ephod of the high priest. 

The jack of hearts carries the male emblem 
in his hand and the three links are on his belt to 
show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing. The 
jack of spades holds up the three links, and the 
spade itself is a patent, combination, hermaphro- 
dite, religious emblem of sufficient m.agic potency 
to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze 
upon its sacred and occult form. The king of 
hearts performs the occult and saving rite of 
putting the sword or cross through the crown. 
This crown is adorned with shamrocks, and on 
his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices. 
He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and 
this is the heart sign, and in it is found the con- 
stellation of the Chalice. And he holds his hand 
on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a 
Mason in due form. 

Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads 
144,000 Jews with the Signa Tau or Word, the 
signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva 
also wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads. 
John says that it is the Father's name written 
in the forehead. Only those sealed with this 
Baum Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob and the other beasts aroimd the Throne. 
All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The 
priests draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on 

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the foreheads of their devotees every Ash Wed- 
nesday. 

Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured 
out his vial upon the earth, and I saw three un- 
clean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of 
the Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast. 
For they are the spirits of devils which go forth 
unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the 
great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is 
the angel of the sixth sign of the zodiac, our pres- 
ent sign, the Waterman, and the nations of the 
earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon. 
We are now at the end of a Great Cycle. The 
end of the world has come according to the astro- 
logical and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants 
of the earth are again being destroyed, this time 
by fire and sword. Christ now comes to bring a 
sword upon the earth. 

According to the Christians, all the nations 
engaged in the war, save two, march forth 
under the banner and protection of Jehovah, 
the God of Battles, and he divides himself 
into two persons and, perched upon two 
clouds, commands the two contending hosts, 
urging them on to kill each other. After this 
holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be f oimd 
no fool so utter as to assert that God rules the 
destinies of mankind. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 
The Clergy. 

The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of 
Scotland, of old times, claimed that they coiild 
consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell 
by a word, and could by their magic power 
strike with death any enemy of God, that is, 
the clergy. They would not allow anyone to 
remain in town who failed to go and hear their 
sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the people 
in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as 
they enslaved mind as well as body. 

**John Knox sanctioned the murder of the 
Roman Archbishop Beaton of Scotland in 1548, 
and shut himself up with the assassins in the 
palace of the Archbishop. When the Catholic 
power was destroyed in Scotland by the nobles 
in 1560 and the church property confiscated by 
them, the Protestant clergy claimed that it was 
impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and 
that they should be endowed with the spoils of the 
war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the 
Church of Rome, but the loot should be turned 
over to them. They said that what rightly be- 
longed to them was devoured by idle bellies. 
The Presbyterian clergy said that King James 
was a traitor and had seven devils inside of him, 
and he ought to be seized. And their 
associate in crime, the Earl of Gourie, entrapped 
the King into his castle in order to murder 
him."— Buckle's Hist. Civ. 2-201. 

The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness 
was to be guarded against. Smiling, provided 

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it stopped short of laughter, might occasionally 
be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a 
sin to smile on Sunday. A Christian has no 
business with love or sympathy. He has his 
own soul to attend to, that is enough for him. 
On Sunday in particular he must never think of 
benefitting others and thus break the Sabbath. 
On no occasion must food or shelter be given to 
a starving man imless he is a Presbyterian. 

'*In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool 
of religion, in his will provided that all heretics 
should be put to death and that the Inquisition 
should be upheld. Under his orders, according 
to Grotius, 100,000 persons were beheaded, 
buried alive and btimt at the stake in the Nether- 
lands. Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better 
not to reign at all than to reign over heretics. 
The Duke of Alva, in this reign, boasted that in 
five or six years he had put to death in cold blood 
more than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater 
nimiber of infidels he had slain on the battle- 
field."— Idem 2-14. 

When it was proposed to expel from Spain 
the remnant of Moors remaining, who had 
turned Christians and were baptized by force, 
Bleda, the Dominican, said that every Moor in 
Spain should have his throat cut, because it was 
impossible to tell which of them were Christians 
at heart, but God knew his own and he 
could sort them out. About one million of the 
most industrious inhabitants of Spain were 
hunted out like wild beasts. Many were slain 
as they approached the coast, others were beaten 
and plundered, and the majority in the most 
wretched plight sailed for Africa. During the 
passage the crew in many of the ships butchered 
the men, ravished the women and threw the 
children into the sea. From this time Spain 
began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion 

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was supreme. While every other country was 
advancing, Spain, numbed into a death-like 
torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the ac- 
cursed superstition, presented to Europe a soli- 
tary instance of constant decay/' — ^Idem, 2-53. 

*'The French Revolution freed the world 
from ecclesiastical tyranny and opened an tm- 
obstructed path to Napoleon, who had given 
the death blow to the Inquisition, the great 
slaughter house, where they butchered in the 
name of the Lamb.'' — Isis Unveiled, 2-22. 

The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were 
quite as disreputable as the others. The In- 
stitutes of Manu provided that if a common 
person molested a Brahmin, he was to be put to 
death. If he sat on the same carpet with a 
Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he 
listened to the reading of the sacred books, burn- 
ing oil was to be poured into his ears, and if he 
committed them to memory, he was to be killed. 
If he spoke disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron 
stile ten fingers long was to be thrust red-hot 
into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or 
will them your property was an act of the high- 
est piety. 

The laws of the clergy in certain provinces 
of France, ruled by them in old times, provided 
that every man that died without bequeathing 
part of his estate to the church, should be de- 
prived of the Sacrament (and would consequent- 
ly go to Hell). If he died without making a 
will, his relatives were obliged to prevail upon 
the Bishop to appoint arbitrators to determine 
what stmi the deceased should have given to 
the church in case he had made a will. At one 
time in France, ''married couples could not sleep 
together the first three nights without purchas- 
ing leave of the church." — Montesquieu's Spirit 
of the Laws, 665. 

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'Tope John XII was assassinated in the 
arms of his mistress. Crecentious, the ille- 
gitimate son of John X, caused Benedict VI 
to be murdered. His faction elected Boniface 
VII, and a third faction elected John XV, who 
was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly- 
after 1044 Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and 
Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning at the 
same time, and all leading the most profligate 
and scandalous lives/' — Doubts of Infidels, 95. 
Bishop Hopkins says that **the great body of 
the clergy before the seventh century were 
steeped in licentiousness, avarice, simony,cruelty, 
violence and blood. They consecrated every 
vice in the interest of so-called religion, they 
graduated sins by pecuniary amercement, they 
commissioned assassins, having pardoned them 
before the commission of the murder.'' 

The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesias- 
tical bandits, were unexcelled. The people had 
to give up one tenth of their income to these 
magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was 
obliged to offer her person for sale one day in the 
year at the temple of Astarte, and the money 
went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon 
ransacked the world and bought or stole the 
most beautiful women on earth for the use of the 
priests, who made a pretence of offering them up 
as human sacrifices to Baal. The god held in his 
hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic, the 
circle and the piUar, that may still be seen in nearly 
all chiurches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed 
on the lap of the god in the presence of the audi- 
ence, to be devoured by the lions that surrotmded 
the god. But after the meeting the priests drove 
the lions out and stole the sacrifice, as priests 
always did steal the offerings from god. 

The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the 
whole, and owned one third the land of Egypt. 

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Besides the princely revenue from this immense 
landed estate, they received, in addition to their 
salaries, all the offerings and sacrifices that the 
fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very 
large part of their income was derived from the 
Bethel or Brothel maintained around the temple 
of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of the 
god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram 
god or the lamb of god. Every woman in Eg^^pt 
was obliged to sell herself for one month at this 
temple. And then, besides, there were the 
regular sacred ladies who lived constantly in the 
temple. The priests chose the most beautiful, 
then the remainder were turned over to the mob 
of pious dupes and devotees. The young lady 
who earned the most money for the priests 
was, in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias 
Yahvah, to a seat beside the Golden Throne. 
This rotten pagan church subsequently changed 
its name to Christian. 

Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend in- 
carnate, one of the founders of the Protestant 
Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to 
confess on the rack their indiscretions, and then 
threw them naked into the lake and drowned 
them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents, 
burned old women as witches, and burned alive 
Michael Servetus for contradicting Moses in 
asserting that Palestine was a desert that did 
not flow with milk and honey. Calvin died in 
convulsions of fear, raving and cursing because 
he thought he was going to Hell. 

Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the 
murder demon, the regicide, the usurper, with 
the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, 
rode at the head of his army of religious fanatics 
singing psalms. This sanctified Christian, upon 
the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself report- 
ed to Parliament that he massacred two thou- 

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sand of the garrison. He fired St. Peter's 
Church, to which the people had fled, and put 
a thousand of them to the sword. All the friars 
were killed but two. And the likes of him settled 
Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians. 
One of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will 
Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637, was sentenced 
to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft 
stick, because he got drunk and cussed and swore 
and refused to go to church on Sunday. 

In those blithesome days a citizen could not 
vote unless he belonged to the Congregational 
Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather, 
the superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New 
England Protestant Inquisition. Ridpath says 
that Mather was chiefly responsible for the 
horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft, 
and that this massacre, torture and imprisonment 
of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem 
minister for the purpose of revenging himself 
upon those of his flock who antagonized him. 
— Ridpath's Hist, of U. S. 131. The Quakers 
were perhaps the only decent body of Christians 
up to that time, and for that reason the Puritan 
pirates and slave-dealers hung foiu: of them, one 
woman and three men, on Boston Common. 

'Infuse a few different kinds of religious 
poison into a community of human beings, and 
they hate each other like tigers. Religious 
creeds have a worse effect on a man than booze. 
You can work the booze out of your system and 
qmt the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on 
some rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do 
anything with him. A Protestant will damn the 
Catholics, and a Catholic will yell *To Hell with 
the Protestants,*' and both will hate the Jews.*' 
— Roman Religion, 27. 

The churches have soaked the earth with the 
blood of their cotmtless victims. Frederick, the 

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Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all 
descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand 
heretics were slaughtered in the city of Beziers. 
Seventy thousand Huguenots were put to death 
in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew 
began at midnight, Aug. 23, 1572, and the car- 
nival of death lasted seven days. Medals com- 
memorating the holy event were distributed 
among the loyal butchers. — Roman Religion, 35. 

**When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from 
the Moslems in 969 A. D., they massacred all 
the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive. 
Seventy thousand persons were put to death in 
a week to attest the superior morality of the 
Christians.'* — Boston Sun. American. 

Dr. Femald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote 
to Pope Alexander VI that he would give him 
300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of 
Jesus Christ if His Holiness would kill Zim.zim, 
the brother of the Sultan, *'and you Most Illus- 
trious Lord will not commit a crime, since by 
your religion Christians are ordered to extermi- 
nate heretics and infidels.'' The Ency. Brit, says 
that *'the unfortunate prince was murdered by 
Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the re- 
ward of the crime." Zimzim was held captive by 
certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of the 
Knights of St. John, a Christian organization 
under the domination of Alexander. Alexander 
was a Borgia, whose children were all illegiti- 
mate. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 
The Bible. 

As the Old Testament was originally written 
without vowels, the Lord only knows what 
it meant. The best the copyists could do was 
to make a good guess at the meaning, or supply 
whatever vowels suited their purposes.— See 
Ency. Brit. 3-64. 

Moses was a magician, a thief and a mtirderer 
according to the Bible, a fakir who foisted upon 
the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly 
plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that 
the world was created in six days, and that their 
god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he 
commanded the people to refrain from labor on 
that day and go to church, so that he would have 
frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The 
story of Moses* birth and secretion in an ark 
of bulrushes was taken from the Babylonians, 
where it was applied to King Sargon, according 
to tablets excavated at Babylon. 

The great, learned and profound Irenaeus 
says that there must be four gospels because there 
are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample 
of the logic of theologians. The fact is, there 
are four gospels because those four jtmiped from 
the floor onto the table at the council of Nice. 
There was at that time so much doubt as to what 
alleged sacred writings were inspired by God, that 
the delegates put them all together under the 
commimion table one night at the close of the 
session, and agreed that those that got up on top 
of the table during the night should be considered 

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as inspired, and those that were too weak to get 
up on the table should be stamped as the work of 
the Devil. 

**Many of the bishops in these councils 
were ruffians and were followed by crowds of 
vicious supporters, who stood ready on the 
slightest excuse to maim and kill their opponents." 
— Keeler's Hist, of the Bible. Tichenor says that 
"they decided all holy questions by a vote or a 
knock-down fight. It is doubtftil if any of them 
drew a sober breath during the entire proceed- 
ings.'' **Millman says that ''they fought in the 
streets and much blood was shed." — Millman's 
Hist. Christianity. ''What these drunken, fight- 
ing, ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received 
from God, that is what is taught as Divine to- 
day. To this day they cram their abominable 
lies of devils and damnation into the brains of 
little children. The miserable, crazy creeds of 
Christendom were concocted by these brawling 
pagan priests, and their poison still polutes the 
souls of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds 
into the melting pot, and out comes the brazen 
face of Mammon." — Tichenor. 

Another reason why there are four gospels, 
according to Irenaeus, was because the Cherubim 
had four faces. But he thus calls attention to 
the fact that Christianity was spawned in the 
sties of paganism, as the Jews took the four beasts 
of the Cherubim, the biill, the lion, the eagle and 
the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And 
the four Evangelists adopted the four beasts as 
their totems and placed their beastly images on 
the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the 
Mexicans worshipped the same four idols of the 
four quarters of the heavens. — Ency. Brit. 12-823. 
The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the 
bull and sacrifice to the dragon or great serpent 
(Mary) that wears on its head the crescent moon. 

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They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life. 
The Ojibway picture writing shows that the 
Indian Adam and Eve had the same disgraceful 
scandal in the garden of Eden. See 'Indians/' 
Ency. Americana. 

It is claimed that Apollonlus of Tyana 
(alleged to be the original of Paul and Christ) 
came through a medium and said: **Nine epistles 
were made a present to me by Pharaotes, a 
Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon and India. 
These epistles contained all that is embraced 
in the present epistles claimed to have been 
written by Paul. Further, I retired to the Isle 
of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a 
trance state an almost identical story with that 
attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels 
were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus, 
Philippi, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Babylon, 
and in all those countries I healed the sick, cured 
the blind and raised the dead. The original 
of the four gospels I obtained at Singapore. 
They treated of the four stages of the life of 
Buddha.'' — ^Antiquity Unveiled, 21. 

Moses and God were mad at the Midian- 
ites because the Jews had entered into the tents 
of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal 
Poer, from which ensued a plague among the 
Congregation of the Lord. Ntmi. 31-18. And 
they warred against the Midianites, as the 
Lord commanded, and slew all the males and 
took all the women and children captive. Moses 
was wroth because they had saved all the women 
and children, and ordered all the males among 
the children to be killed and all the females to 
be turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And 
he ordered all the women murdered except the 
virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers 
and 16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and 
the people were compelled to pay of these into 

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the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. "And 
the priests laid with the virgins at the door of 
the Tabernacle.'* Such a monstrosity of in- 
iquity, such a fiend incarnate from the shades 
of Hell is the senior member of the firm of Moses 
and the Lamb. 

The history of Moses is copied from the 
history of Bacchus, who was called Mises by 
the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was bom 
in Egypt, he sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed 
through the Red Sea on dry land, he was a 
lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he 
was foimd in a box that floated on the water, 
he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and 
Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of 
his sung in Egypt, Phenicia, Syria, Arabia and 
Greece before Abraham's day. — Doubts of In- 
fidels, 3L 

The account of creation as given in the Bible 
has been found on tablets in the ruins of Nineveh, 
written in a language that was dead and buried 
before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian 
cosmogony the name of the first man was 
Adomah, and of the woman Hevah. 

The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul 
boasts of lying for the glory of God and catching 
converts with guile. Chrysostom said: **Great 
is the force of deceit.'' St. Hermas, an Apos- 
tolic Father, said that he always lived in dis- 
simulation and affirmed a lie for truth to all men. 
Doubts of Infidels, 78. 

You will see that the Bible is dedicated to 
King James, and that he is canonized in the 
dedication, probably because he kept fifty mis- 
tresses and was in the habit of becoming beastly 
intoxicated without provocation. 

The only real revelations received by the 
priests and prophets of any religion were spirit 
, messages, and the Lord only knows whether 

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these were from God or the Devil, from good or 
bad spirits. In fact it is claimed by some spirit- 
ualists that all the good spirits are in Heaven 
with God and can't get out. In other words, they 
are in limbo, while those that were not so good 
are at liberty to visit the loved spots and fond 
friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their 
favorite pastimes, whether it be a prayer meet- 
ing or a poker game. This is purgatory, the next 
story above Hell, which is the earth. 

Gibbon said that Eusebius was a constmimate 
liar. The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle 
to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the 
lives of Christna and Apollonius and the records 
of the Essenes and some of the Jewish and 
Phenician legends. 

A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius 
in the possession of the monks of Seville, Spain, 
about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan 
Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a 
Latin translation, in which the name of Apollo- 
nius had been changed to John among many other 
falsifications. The Latin translation was almost 
identical with the Gospel of St. John. When 
Hermonez called the attention of the Superior 
to these changes, he was seized and thrown into 
a dungeon, in which he was allowed to starve and 
rot. 

The Bible has been too much neglected, due, 
no doubt, to the general impression that, being 
religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For 
instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and 
days and nights foiu* days before they made 
the sun. " They made a firmament, probably of 
metal, to divide the ocean above from the ocean 
below, and had windows in it, so that they could 
open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth 
whenever they got drunk and needed a little 
diversion. And they stuck the stm, moon and 

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stars in the metal firmament, which revolved 
arotmd the earth. 

When the serpent was not working, he was 
coiled around the Tree of Life telling Eve in 
snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore. 
For this interference with the plans of the 
gods, they made the serpent crawl on his belly. 
He had been crawling on his back. 

Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, de- 
stroyed all the horses and cattle in Eg}^pt by a 
murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff 
neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then, 
as Pharaoh still had trouble with his neck, they 
killed all the first-bom of Egypt, both men and 
cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh 
hitched up his horses, that had been killed three 
times, to his six hundred chariots and pursued 
the chosen of God, who had pinched all the 
jewelry of the Egyptians. The Bible is full of 
these delightful stories from beginning to end. 
If you have conscientious scruples against read- 
ing the Bible, you will find them attractively 
set forth in Le Brim's Doubts of Infidels. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

Heaven. 

The Lord doeth all things well. 
He consigns the Jews to Heaven, 
And all the rest to Hell. 

There are forty nine heavens to which we or- 
dinary mortals may attain, so you needn't worry. 
Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens 
reserved for the great and good men of high 
spirituality, such as Moses, the fakir, thief and 
murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and 
assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon 
and pillar of Ashtoreth, and all the popes, bishops, 
priests and ministers. We will each go to that 
place we like the best, and to which we are fitted 
by our vibration. Some of us, like certain minis- 
ters, will go to that heaven where the beautiful 
fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little 
heaven of their own, where they can worship the 
three balls and the ass-headed god and the god 
with whiskers on, and where they will have a 
chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell 
corner lots, and insure their palace not made 
with hands eternal in the heavens. 

And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will 
walk the golden streets with his savage, gore- 
imbued devil-god, in his paradise overlooking 
the abyss of Hell, where he can gloat over the 
souls in torment, as they rise up out of the 
Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one 
fastened by his tongue to a hook on an endless 
chain, which rises from such a fathomless depth 
of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand 

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years to make the circuit. It is claimed that 
these heavens and hells are built up from the 
astral substance by the imaginative power of the 
minds of the different religious sects. 

This region contains all the heavens that 
have ever been dreamed of in theology, each 
filled with the devotees of the various creeds. 
Each of the great religions has its own particular 
region in which its disciples gather, worship and 
rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds 
just what he had expected and hoped to find 
on the other shore. You may even see the golden 
crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and 
hear the eternal chant of praise. These heavens 
are not eternal. Everything on the astral plane 
is subject to change like all other matter. Even 
the religious progress and change their opinions. 
—Astral Word, 70. 

The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the 
process by which you may see the astral visions 
and pass out of the physical and journey in the 
astral body, But this is one way to see the 
pictures in the astral light: Between sleeping 
and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata, when 
the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the 
body, and you experience a floating sensation, 
take note of the visions that appear to you, if 
any, and then by your will power impress them 
upon physical brain, so that you may remember 
them. These visions may be pictures on the 
astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but 
whatever they are, some of them prove to be 
true prophetic visions. 

One occult teacher advised those who wished 
to induce trance to go into the silence, that is, to 
go into a room by yourself, where you will not 
be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax 
the muscles and think of nothing at all. The 
Hindus say fix yoiu* mind on your navel, but some 

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fix their gaze on a crystal. You will see the 
visions when you doze off, if you can get them 
at all. 

When you are in the astral body it is possible 
to remember the experiences of your previous 
lives, that is, the lives of your ancestors. In the 
physical body heredity and memory are stored in 
the cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of 
cells of the body. The human astral body is made 
up of the astral bodies of aU the cells. It is 
possible that memory is inherent in the astral 
matter of all the cells, and that in the astral we 
are more in rapport with the cells than in the 
physical. 

In the lowest astral plane next to the earth, 
it is said, is the region where the astral shells or 
corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off here, a 
leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed 
that the spirits have deserted these shells. If 
you should happen to meet one of these ghosts 
walking in a graveyard without any legs or with- 
out any head, it may scare you into a fit, but it 
will not do you any harm, for it is dead. Then 
there are certain spectres or phantoms whose 
company is very undesirable when you take a 
lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands. 
These elemental spirits like to play practical 
jokes and have a little fun with you, but they 
will not do you any harm, unless you are suffi- 
ciently weak to aHow them to obsess you. Cast 
out fear, cultivate a strong will, and be, like 
Solomon, the master of demons and men. 

'There are certain entities or beings in the 
astral world which never were human and never 
will be, for they belong to an entirely different 
order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps 
and goblins. At spiritual seances they some- 
times play elfish pranks. They seem to be 
particularly apt to play tricks on neophjtes in 

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jpsychic research who seek to penetrate the 
I astral without proper instruction. To such a 
one they appear as hideous forms, monsters 
&c."— Astral World, 92. 

Some of the elementals are electric spirits 
and confer upon the medium the power of 
magnetic healing. The medium, upon the ap- 
proach of the spirit, is charged with electricity. 
The spirit may appear as a bird with a human 
face and a parrot's bill and sharp, black eyes 
and body covered with hair, and deliver mes- 
sages which can be heard clairaudiently by the 
medium. That reminds us of the claim of 
Mahomet that a little bird stood on his shoulder 
and whispered the laws of the Koran in his 
ear. They are certainly the Devil's own laws. 

*'Many of the angds on the astral and the 
ghosts that haunt houses are thought forms 
created by the people who imagine them, and 
obtain all their apparent mind from the action 
of the thought force of their creators. Re- 
peated thought and repeated belief will serve 
to keep alive and strengthen these entities, 
otherwise they will disappear in time. Many 
supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine 
beings of all religions have been formed in this 
way. The power of the devils arise in the 
same way." — Idem. 

According to the Theosophists man has 
two souls, the animal and the spiritual, and at 
death the animal soul or spook, together with 
the spiritual soul, passes to that part of the 
astral called Kamaloka, or place of spooks, 
the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts 
the spook and leaves it to meet its just reward 
in the second death, because on earth it desired 
too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks 
retain all the impressions accumulated in the 
earth life and can communicate with mortals 

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through meditims. Among these are the demons 
that obsess hirnian beings. The spiritual soul 
passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods, 
which evidently includes those astral planes 
where the religious grovel before their various 
imaginary idols. See **WhatisTheosophy/' 46. 
This alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its 
brother soul in the depths of Hell, receives its 
due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which 
it goes, it has no memory of the earth life, 
consequently it is not immortal, and it is in 
jail and cannot get out. It would be better 
to stay in Hell with the spook, for it could have 
more fun haimting houses than worshipping 
imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox 
hypocrites. 

In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens, 
and at the end of the world period they kill 
off all the spirits in all these heavens except 
those in the five upper spheres, the four highest 
of which are Nirvana. 

You need not think that because you go 
across that you. will have surcease from sont)w. 
It is only in the highest heavens that they have 
no sorrow, and that is because they don't know 
anything. You cannot obtain happiness here 
or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any 
fakir, but only by doing to others as you would 
be done by. The astral planes of the Spiritualists 
in which the soul may advance, improve and 
ultimately attain to the highest heaven, cor- 
responds with Purgatory, that superlative graft 
of religion. You can be prayed out of this 
limbo, if your relatives are willing to put up 
the stuff, otherwise you will be shoveled down 
into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a 
Hindu prayer wheel. I am going to devote 
the immense revenues which I shall receive from 
this pious work to the construction of prayer 

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wheels, which will be placed at street corners 
on all the highways and byways, so that even 
he who runs can turn the wheel and bring around 
to the open slot, so that God can see it, one of 
the many prayers printed on the wheel, for 
instance: "O, God, save my mother-in-law from 
Hell." 

In the coma, between sleeping and waking, 
the gates of the astral world are sometimes 
opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral 
plane, great throngs of spirits, having no indi- 
cation of piety, all busily engaged in their favorite 
occupations or sports. If in this state of Jagrata 
you happen to float into a graveyard, you will 
see the ghosts lying or sitting on their graves 
or pacing up and down beside them with bowed 
heads and in deep thought, trying to figure 
out how they got there and where they are 
going. See Seership, 179. 

It is said that two persons can exchange 
bodies if they wish. Or if someone else has a 
better body than you have, and you wish to 
steal it, invite him to take a trip with you in 
his astral body on the astral plane. All the 
time keep commanding your astral body, sotto 
voce, to enter into his body, and when his 
astral body has emerged, prepared to take a 
trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant 
for your astral body to take possession of his 
physical body and leave his astral body out 
in the cold. But be careful to back into his 
body, for if your astral body enters his physical 
body face to face, you wiU be in wrong end to 
and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no 
place for the other astral body to go except 
into your abandoned physical body, and as 
you are a wicked robber who just stole a house, 
he will probably hesitate about entering the 
body of such a person, and if he delays too long, 

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he will be a lost spook, condemned to wanda- 
forever in the land of shades. 

Do not allow them to palm off any gods 
upon you. Do not allow anyone to assume 
authority over you. I charge you to teach 
your descendants these things from father to 
son, down through the clanging corridors of 
time, down through the endless vista of eternity. 
There is nothing but matter in the universe, 
and all matter is equal. This being so, all 
forms produced therefrom, whether visible or 
invisible, must be equal, and one form has no 
right to assume authority over another. All 
beings are composed of matter, be they gods or 
be they worms, and no one mass of matter is 
superior to another or worthy of worship. The 
worm that crawls the earth is the equal of the 
king that sits upon a throne. Never bow the 
knee to anything that walks or swims or flies, 
that lives in the flesh or that exists only in the 
diseased imagination of depraved religious fa- 
natics. Remember this: There is none greater 
than you in Heaven or Earth or Hell. 



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THE DEVIL'S HALF ACRE. 

By Willard Bartlett. 

From the Beacon. 

In rummaging through the attic of an old 
wraith-haunted, country house, I discovered 
a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These 
lessons I devoured with avidity, and practiced 
with assiduity the occult rites, until I could 
readily pass into the silence and project my astral 
body or ghost to any desired place. In fact the 
unruly ghost would sometimes quit the body 
without my consent and leave me stranded high 
and dry without any soul. 

One night while I lay sleeping, my astral 
body left the physical and sped through the air, as 
it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny, the 
very last place on earth, the place manufactured 
by the Devil out of scraps and old junk, which he 
had left over after building Hell. But my pervert- 
ed soul always insisted on going there whenever 
it succeeded in bursting through the carnal and 
beating down its being's door. 

The sotd atom or Ego is said to be located in 
the Medulla Oblongata. If the soul is immortal, 
it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be 
composed of ions or electrons, and probably is 
subject to dissolution, and consequently not im- 
mortal. But as no one ever saw an atom or elec- 
tron on account of their extreme minuteness, for 
the purpose of this veracious story, we will call 
the soul an atom and play it is eternal. An 
atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state 
of vibration, and assimied to resemble in form a 

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ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim that 
a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions 
constituting the spirit principle of the universe, 
the akasa or astral light, becoming involved in the 
ether, originates the vortex movement by which 
the atom is produced. The ether is the ultimate 
refinement of matter, a body of extreme tenuity 
that pervades the whole universe and permeates 
all grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all 
the vibrations of light, heat, sound, energy, 
electricity and life are transmitted. 

The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle 
or particle endowed with life, mind and energy. 
A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in the 
atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus 
resembling the solar system. This central sun is a 
male or positive electron, and all those revolving 
about it are females or negative electrons and 
constitute the harem of the central sun, thus 
establishing polygamy at the very basis of life. 
Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic 
animal or god called Pan, the all-god. 

In my nocttu-nal journeys, I thought I was 
clothed in the carnal body, but as I was 
transported through the air, I must neces- 
sarily conclude that I traveled in the astral 
body and on the astral plane, in which astral 
bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together 
with doubles, wraiths, hobgoblins and dopple- 
gangers, to which latter class I belonged. The 
astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is com- 
posed of fine, ethereal matter, and in form is a 
duplicate of the htmian body. It is claimed 
that this body persists for some time after death, 
but eventually disintegrates. 

Many a night I have been there in Hapenny 
when the body lay many miles away. These were 
not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that 
is, I being in the soul atom or astral body. One 

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night I was conducted through a new manufactory 
there, which I had never seen with the mortal 
eyes and never knew existed. But the next time 
I went there in the body, I found the building 
just as I had seen it in the vision. 

The favorite outing place of my doppleganger 
is the Devil's Half Acre, or Murderer's Para- 
dise. It always flies to that obsessed and 
accursed spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close 
round the hinges of Hell. Traveling in the astral 
body, I can see both the qtiick and the dead, but 
as I am always out there at night, the live ones 
are asleep, and only the spooks are abroad, prowl- 
ing hither and yon in the moon's pale rays, visit- 
ing again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes. 
These are earth-bound spirits who, during life, 
lived out a low, degraded existence, and they are 
bound by their own desires and the vibration of 
their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood 
out on the old road in front of the dilapidated 
shack formerly occupied by a gim-fighter, and 
watched the astral bodies as they glided to and 
fro in the air. 

There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear 
to ear and a crimson stream of blood running down 
over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around 
the body was the avira, a cloudy vapor extending 
outward to a distance of two or three feet in the 
shape of an egg^ an emanation of a dark and 
dismal color, corresponding to his dark and dismal 
career. It was in back of that very shack that he 
cut his throat and burst the door that boimd him 
to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that 
he was eternally lost and damned, as the church 
had hypnotized him into believing. But that HeU 
is immeasurably preferable to the Devil's Half 
Acre, because the astral body is relieved of pain, 
hunger and thirst and the necessity of laboring 
for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we 

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are in Hell now, that this is the lowest plane of 
existence. In the Devil's Half Acre the poor and 
wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with 
dirt and clad in rotting rags, lived on three 
cents a day. 

There was something in the atmosphere 
of the neighborhood that urged all the inhabitants 
on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth. 
The place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed 
of God. A village will acquire a character of its 
own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts 
of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will 
linger in the surrounding atmosphere for years 
and exercise a baneful influence on all who dwell 
there. In the Devil's Half Acre you could not 
take a step without treading on the crimson 
stain of a reeking crime. The spooks were and 
are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is 
haunted by ghosts and fiends unholy in Death 
and Hell bedight. It was the obsession of the 
place by the powers of evil that attracted to it 
all the notorious criminals. 

The next spook to pollute the atmosphere 
was that of Mr. D. who, when on earth, was 
engaged in the banking business. In his left 
hand he carried a jimmy and in his right a gun, 
and he was peering here and there looking for a 
safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was 
floating through the air at a height of about 
ten feet, and on his forehead blazed the blood-red 
mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted 
by the fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the 
house across the road. From this house also 
emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck. 
It was there with the halter he had swung himself 
over the battlements of time and dropped into 
eternity. The vicious influence of this house was 
irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought 
obsession and avoid these accvirsed places. 

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The next spirit to make its appearance was 
my old friend Mr. E. who came from walking up 
and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he 
led by the hand. He was still on his uppers as 
usual, as I could see by the ragged condition of his 
astral body. The accompanying aura of a 
slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames, 
indicated a low, deceitful and sensual character 
He stopped and, looking me over, said:**I remem- 
ber you. Don't you want to buy my wife here 
again? She is in good condition now. I admit 
that I cheated you forty years ago when I sold 
her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral 
world she is a vision of youth and beauty." 

Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday 
School teacher, who operated on a class of young 
ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn 
vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the 
foundations of their philosophy were laid. A 
very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but 
his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found 
it necessary, in order to impress upon them the 
Divine truths, to pat them on the knees and sort 
of instil religion into them by the massage pro- 
cess. He has found his heaven. He appeared 
on the astral, surrounded, embraced and beloved 
by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now 
a star-crowned angel band. 

It is claimed that they have schools over 
there, in which those who so desire may be in- 
structed in virtue and wisdom and assisted to 
advance. When at last they learn the great 
secret and discover the key that unlocks the horns 
of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow 
portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze 
through the needle's eye, and enter the higher 
heaven. 

Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments 
of ghosts sometimes without any heads, and 

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sotnetimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly 
without any rudders, for they were dead, and their 
spirits had fled, leaving in the Devil's Half 
Acre their astral shells. That is what they are 
called when their spirits have departed in the 
spiritual body and left the astral body to return 
to the elements like the carnal body. 

A himian being in a normal condition is 
unable to see an astral body, or ghost, because 
the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for 
the human eye to see. The vibrations of the 
ultra-violet or X rays, at one end of the spectrum 
are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other 
end of the spectrum, are too slow for the 
human eye to see. But we have astral senses, 
appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of 
the physical senses, and persons in a trance and 
sometimes people asleep are able to use these 
astral senses and see and communicate with the 
denizens of the astral world. 



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THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM. 
By Willard Bartlett. 
From The Nautilus. 

I will preface my story with the simple 
statement that I am now 500,000,000 years old, 
more or less, that the atom in which my sotil 
is located, or which constitutes my soul, first 
found a home in what is called a living being, 
a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest 
epoch of earth's history. A cell is a minute 
mass of living protoplasm, or jelly-like sub- 
stance, not as large as the head of a pin, a com- 
bination of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, 
ammonia, sulphur, etc. While it is true that 
I existed before that, and, in fact, from all 
eternity, I previously resided in what is called 
inanimate matter, in the igneous rocks. But 
we will say that I was bom when my soul atom 
became involved in the said protoplasm of one 
of the earliest plant cells. 

All matter is endowed with mind, and a 
soul exists in every atom. It is impossible to 
produce new life, as it is said scientists have 
done, and impossible to create life, as God is 
claimed to have done, for life always existed in 
every atom. It is by certain combinations of 
matter that life becomes manifest in motion. 

Each of the thousands of atoms, of which 
said primitive life cell was composed, had a soul 
destined to take its place in some descendant, 
if it had an opportunity. And the souls are 
waiting in the atoms to be bom, and not in 
Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers. 

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The Yogis claim that the souls are waiting in 
some department of the Buddhist heaven crying 
to be bom. Bosh! They are waiting in the 
spermatozoa, those little monsters, those little 
devils that drive their great human masters 
to crime and murder, to the gallows and the 
stake; there they are howling to be bom. In their 
frantic race to enter the ovum, as shown under 
'^Spermatozoa,*' Stand. Die, no wonder they 
are excited. They have been waiting 500,000,000 
years for the opportunity to become human 
beings. 

Cells propagate by division; that is my 
original ancestor, a little, round mass of proto- 
plasm, divided itself into two cells to produce 
offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the 
same through all these millions of years, conse- 
quently I have in my body, in all of the cells, 
some of the original matter of which my original 
cell ancestor was composed. That is eternity's 
great highway by which the soul walked down. 

The human germ cell divides in the same 
manner into two individuals and we propagate, 
as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a 
cell, which, being joined by a cell of the opposite 
sex, becomes fertilized. The human embryo 
develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin 
cell, and each one of the myriads of cells so 
produced is a living, thinking being. 

The question has arisen why the cells in 
an embryo arrange themselves in the form of 
the parent, and it has been asserted that they 
are so distributed by God in pursuance of a 
Divine plan. But it is actually done by the 
volition of the cells themselves. Each cell 
takes its proper position in compliance with the 
instruction of its parent cell, and if removed by 
force to some other part of the embryo, wiU 
return to its original place, thus evincing the 

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most surprising intelligence. It must be remem- 
bered that a molecule is as large as a universe, 
that there is no such thing as size, that as much 
ability may be stored up in the nerve centre of a 
cell as in all the debris of a himian brain. 

We are immortal, but with no memory of 
past lives. If we do not propagate, this life will 
be the end of our line that has continued unbroken 
for millions of years, and we will have to go back 
into the abysmal void, into the womb of chaos 
and commence all over again. That will be our 
fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies 
which may be incorporated in our progeny will 
continue in human form. That cell is a remote, 
relative of ours, having descended from the 
ancestral germ cell from which our embryo was 
developed. 

Of the earliest plant cells, developed by 
spontaneous generation in the primordial epoch, 
some developed tails, or projected filaments of 
protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With 
these tails they propelled themselves through the 
primeval seas, and thus separated themselves 
from the plants and became animals. In this 
earliest epoch of life's history all beings lived in 
the water. These primitive plants possessed as 
much soul and mind as the animals that thus 
branched off from them, and all plants still possess 
soul and mind. 

But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who 
thus projected a tail and became an animal, was 
a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer 
and a cannibal. We all have to live on proto- 
plasm. The plants made their own living plasm, 
manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the 
animals were too indolent to do such laborious 
work, when they could just as well kill and eat 
the plant cells and subsist on them. In this 
way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and 

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we descendants are consequently bom cannibals, 
condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat our 
fellow beings, or starve. 

My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will 
introduce you, was an animal consisting of nimier- 
ous cells arranged in the form of a sack or stom- 
ach, called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was 
no central brain at this time, each cell having a 
brain of its own. 

Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down 
in the mine, in a drift in the limestone, the earliest 
sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the 
primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic 
ancestor, willed to me by him millions of years ago, 
and delivered by him to me yesterday. It is a 
minute shell, with which he protected his precious 
stomach. This stomach took its flight to Heaven 
in the earliest dawn of time, but the house, one 
of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact 
came down to me through unnumbered ages, 
while myriad races came into being and faded 
into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourish- 
ed and waned, and empires rose and rotted and 
fell. 

In the next stage, the stomach has become 
elongated, and the nerve centre or spinal cord 
makes its appearance along the whole length of 
the body. At this period my beloved grandfather 
was a very aristocratic and exclusive worm, be- 
longing to one of the first families, and, like them, 
had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no 
cranial brain had yet developed. 

The remaining steps of the evolution, through 
which my ancestors have passed, are depicted in 
the development of the human embryo, and I 
will ask you to read up on the subject of embry- 
ology, which I have found quite as interesting as 
dime novels. 

(142) 

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